Ten Tables

2 Chronicles 4:8-17 – He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls. He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze. He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner. And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God: the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars); the stands with their basins; the Sea and the twelve bulls under it; the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles. All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of polished bronze. The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.

Exodus 25:30 – Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before me at all times.

1 Samuel 21:4 – But the priest answered David, “I don’t have any ordinary bread on hand; however, there is some consecrated bread here—provided the men have kept themselves from women.”

Application:

• ·         The bread represented a perpetual offering to the Lord by which the Israelites declared that they consecrated to God the fruits of their labors and by which the nation at the same time acknowledged that all such fruit had been provided only by God’s blessing.
• ·         Although the bread was to be eaten only by the priests, Ahimelek agreed to give it to David and his men on the condition that they were ceremonially clean. Jesus uses this incident to illustrate the principle that the ceremonial law was not to be viewed in a legalistic manner. He also teaches that it is always lawful to do good and to save life. Such compassionate acts are within the true spirit of the law.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV