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Literal Standard Version

2 Chronicles 4:8

And he makes ten tables, and places [them] in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left; and he makes one hundred bowls of gold.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Basin;   Bowl;   Thompson Chain Reference - Basins;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Basin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Shewbread;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Basin;   Table;   Vessels and Utensils;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bason;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Holy Place;   Shewbread, Table of;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Showbread;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He made ten tables and placed them in the sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
Hebrew Names Version
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
King James Version
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
English Standard Version
He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
New Century Version
He made ten tables and put them in the Temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he used gold to make a hundred other bowls.
New English Translation
He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls.
Amplified Bible
He made also ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left side, and he made a hundred [ceremonial] basins of gold.
New American Standard Bible
He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred golden bowls.
World English Bible
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he made ten tables, & put them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, & fiue on the left: and he made an hundreth basens of golde.
Legacy Standard Bible
He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred golden bowls.
Berean Standard Bible
Additionally, 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.
Contemporary English Version
He also made ten tables and placed them in the main room, five on each side. And he made a hundred small gold sprinkling bowls.
Complete Jewish Bible
He also made ten tables and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
Darby Translation
And he made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the left. And he made a hundred golden bowls.
Easy-to-Read Version
He made ten tables and put them in the Temple. Five tables were on the right side and five tables on the left side in the Temple. And he used gold to make 100 basins.
George Lamsa Translation
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 fine gold.
Lexham English Bible
And he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north. And he made a hundred drinking bowls of gold.
Literal Translation
He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left; and he made a hundred basins of gold.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And made ten tables, and set them in the temple: fyue on the righte hande, and fyue on the lefte. And made an hundreth basens of golde.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
He made ten tables, and put them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred gold basins.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made also ten tables, and put them in the temple, fiue on the right side, and fiue on the left: And he made an hundred basens of golde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the Temple, fiue on the right side, and fiue on the left: and hee made an hundred basens of gold.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he made ten tables, and put them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left: and he made a hundred golden bowls.
English Revised Version
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he made also ten boordis, and settide tho in the temple, fyue at the riytside and fyue at the leftside.
Update Bible Version
He also made 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.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New King James Version
He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred bowls of gold.
New Living Translation
He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the north wall. Then he molded 100 gold basins.
New Life Bible
He made ten tables and put them in the house of God. Five were on the right side and five on the left. And he made 100 deep dishes out of gold.
New Revised Standard
He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred basins of gold.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he made ten tables, and placed in the temple, five, on the right hand, and, five, on the left, - and he made a hundred tossing bowls of gold.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.
Revised Standard Version
He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.
Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh ten tables, and placeth in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left; and he maketh bowls of gold a hundred.
THE MESSAGE
He made ten tables and set five on the right and five on the left. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred golden bowls.

Contextual Overview

1And he makes an altar of bronze: twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height. 2And he makes the molten sea; ten by the cubit, from its edge to its edge, round in encompassment, and its height [is] five by the cubit, and a line of thirty by the cubit surrounds it around. 3And the likeness of oxen [is] under it, encompassing it all around, ten to the cubit, surrounding the sea around; two rows of oxen are cast in its being cast. 4It is standing on twelve oxen, three facing the north, and three facing the west, and three facing the south, and three facing the east, and the sea [is] on them above, and all their back parts [are] within. 5And its thickness [is] a handbreadth, and its lip as the work of the lip of a cup flowered with lilies; holding [within]—it contains three thousand baths. 6And he makes ten lavers, and puts five on the right, and five on the left, to wash with them; they purge the work of the burnt-offering with them; and the sea [is] for priests to wash with. 7And he makes the ten lampstands of gold, according to their ordinance, and places [them] in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left. 8And he makes ten tables, and places [them] in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left; and he makes one hundred bowls of gold.9And he makes the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and he has overlaid their doors with bronze. 10And he has placed the sea on the right shoulder eastward, from toward the south.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ten tables: Exodus 25:23-30, Exodus 37:10-16, 1 Kings 7:48, Isaiah 25:6, Ezekiel 44:16, Malachi 1:12, 1 Corinthians 10:21

basins: or, bowls, Jeremiah 52:18, Jeremiah 52:19, Zechariah 14:20

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:40 - the lavers 1 Chronicles 28:16 - tables of showbread 2 Chronicles 29:18 - the showbread Ezra 1:9 - chargers of gold Nehemiah 7:70 - basins

Cross-References

Genesis 4:3
And it comes to pass at the end of days that Cain brings from the fruit of the ground a present to YHWH;
Genesis 4:6
And YHWH says to Cain, "Why do you have displeasure? And why has your countenance fallen?
Genesis 4:9
And YHWH says to Cain, "Where [is] your brother Abel?" And he says, "I have not known; am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 4:10
And He says, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground;
Genesis 4:12
when you till the ground, it will not add to give its strength to you—a wanderer, even a trembling one, you are in the earth."
Genesis 4:15
And YHWH says to him, "Therefore, of any slayer of Cain it is required sevenfold"; and YHWH sets to Cain a token that none finding him will slay him.
Genesis 4:24
For sevenfold is required for Cain, || And for Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also a son has been born, and he calls his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the Name of YHWH.
2 Samuel 3:27
And Abner turns back to Hebron, and Joab turns him aside to the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and strikes him there in the fifth [rib]—and he dies—for the blood of his brother Asahel.
2 Samuel 14:6
and your maidservant has two sons; and both of them strive in a field, and there is no deliverer between them, and one strikes the other, and puts him to death;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The number of the tables (see 2 Chronicles 4:19) and of the basins, is additional to the information contained in Kings.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 4:8. A hundred basons of gold — These were doubtless a sort of paterae or sacrificial spoons, with which they made libations.


 
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