=8.= _ten tables_] In verse 19 “the tables (_plural_) whereon was the shewbread” are mentioned (compare 1 Chronicles xxviii. 16), but the parallel passage (1 Kings vii. 48) has “the table” (_singular_), and elsewhere both in Chronicles and in the rest of the Old Testament one table only is assigned to the shewbread (2 Chronicles xiii. 11, xxix. 18). Probably therefore the ten tables here mentioned were _not_ for the shewbread, although the Chronicler may have thought so. The same uncertainty attaches to this tradition of ten tables as to that of the ten candlesticks (see previous note); and it is held by some that these tables were for the support of the candlesticks. _basons_] These were used for dashing the blood of the sacrifices against the altar. =9, 10.= THE TWO COURTS. ⁹Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. =9.= _the court of the priests, and the great court_] The phrases reflect the conditions of the second Temple with which the Chronicler was familiar, when the inner court was confined to the use of the priests, the outer one being for the people. Solomon’s Temple, strictly speaking, had only _one_ court, for in “the other court” stood Solomon’s house (1 Kings vii. 8). This “other court” seems to be called the “middle court” (2 Kings xx. 4, margin), and the “upper court” (Jeremiah xxxvi. 10). The “great court” (1 Kings vii. 12) was perhaps a third court containing not only the king’s house, but all the royal buildings as well. The Hebrew word for “court” in all the above passages is _ḥāṣēr_, but here the “court (_ḥāṣēr_) of the priests” is distinguished from a court called the “great court” (Hebrew “great _‘azārāh_”). Perhaps the Chronicler wishes to make the same distinction when he says that Solomon’s great prayer was offered (vi. 13) in “the court” (Hebrew _‘azārāh_). Compare xx. 5 (note). ¹⁰And he set the sea on the right side _of the house_ eastward, toward the south. =10.= _the sea_] See verses 2‒5. Its position is stated in accordance with 1 Kings vii. 39. =11‒18= (= 1 Kings vii. 40‒47). THE WORKS OF HURAM. This section is taken from the parallel passage of 1 Kings. The variations are few. ¹¹And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of God: =11.= _Huram_] For the form of the name see note on ii. 3. ¹²the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the pillars; ¹³and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon¹ the pillars.