Lamentationes 40:42

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Quatuor autem mensæ ad holocaustum de lapidibus quadris exstructæ, longitudine cubiti unius et dimidii, et latitudine cubiti unius et dimidii, et altitudine cubiti unius : super quas ponant vasa in quibus immolantur holocaustum et victima.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Quatuor autem mens� ad holocaustum de lapidibus quadris exstruct�, longitudine cubiti unius et dimidii, et latitudine cubiti unius et dimidii, et altitudine cubiti unius: super quas ponant vasa in quibus immolatur holocaustum et victima.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
[40:42a] Quattuor autem mensae ad holocaustum de lapidibus quadris exstructae longitudine cubiti unius et dimidii et latitudine cubiti unius et dimidii et altitudine cubiti unius, [40:43a] et labia palmi unius reflexa intrinsecus per circuitum;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:23 - a table 1 Kings 7:48 - the table

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the four tables were of hewn stone,.... These are either the same tables as before, the four that were on one side, and the four that were on the other; they were all made of hewn stone: in the second temple they were made of marble; so it is said in the Misnah q,

"the marble tables were between the pillars;''

and they were made of marble, as the commentators r say, because that cools the flesh, and preserves it from corruption: they were both decent and durable; and may denote the continuance of the ordinance of the Lord's supper till his second coming; and which is a decent and becoming ordinance, as well as perpetual: or these were other four tables, as Cocceius thinks; and which he places without the porch, near the cell or chamber, where the burnt offering was washed, Ezekiel 40:38, and these are said to be for that, as follows,

for the burnt offering: and also for the sin offering, and for the trespass offering, though they are not mentioned:

of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad; just a foursquare:

and one cubit high; these were the dimensions of each table:

whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice: the knives with which they slew the creatures offered, and cut them to pieces, and the bowls and basins in which they received their blood; these were laid upon the tables, as the sacrifices were: and may signify, that in the ordinance of the Lord's supper are not only represented the sacrifice of Christ, but the means, instruments, causes, and occasion of it; the sins of his people, for which he was wounded and bruised in his body, and with which he was pierced in his soul; and here we may look on him whom we have thus pierced, and mourn; and yet rejoice that there is healing by his stripes, pardon by his blood, and atonement by his sacrifice.

q Tamid, c. 3. sect. 5. & Middot, c. 3. sect. 5. r Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Omit “the” and “were.” These “four tables” are not the same as those mentioned before. The eight tables (T) were for slaying and preparing the victims, and were probably of wood, these (S) were of “hewn stone.” There may be in the number twelve a reference to the twelve tribes of Israel.