John Gill Commentary Exodus 38:28

"And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five [shekels] he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them." — Exodus 38:28 (ASV)

And of the thousand seven hundred seventy five [shekels] ,
&c.] Which remained of the sum collected, (Exodus 38:25) after the silver sockets were cast:

he made hooks for the pillars :
on each side of the court of the tabernacle on which the hangings were hung; these hooks, as Kimchi says {t}, were in the form of the letter (w) , and were made to hang the sacrifices upon, when they took their skins off; and so it is said in the Misnah ^F21 , that there were iron hooks fixed in the walls and pillars, on which they hung (the passover lambs) and skinned them; this was done in the second temple, when the hooks, it seems, were iron, but those of the tabernacle were silver:

and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them ;
that is, overlaid the heads, tops, or knobs of the pillars with silver plates, and filleted, girded, or hooped other parts of them with silver.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F21: Pesachim, c. 5. sect. 9.