Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 4:8

"He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred basins of gold." — 2 Chronicles 4:8 (ASV)

He made also ten tables.—Perhaps the golden candelabra stood upon them. (Compare to 1 Chronicles 28:16 and 2 Chronicles 4:19, below.)

Side.—Not in the Hebrew.

A hundred basins.—Bowls for pouring libations (Amos 6:6; same word, mizrâqîm). The Syriac and Arabic make the number of these vessels a hundred and twenty.

The ten tables are not mentioned in the parallel narrative, which speaks of one table only, namely, the table of shewbread (1 Kings 7:48).

“Basins,” or bowls, are spoken of in 1 Kings 7:45; 1 Kings 7:50 (mizrâqôth), but their number is not given.