23 " You shall make a table of acacia wood , two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high . 24 "You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it. 25 "You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it. 26 "You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet . 27 "The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table . 28 "You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold , so that with them the table may be carried . 29 "You shall make its dishes and its pans and its jars and its bowls with which to pour drink offerings ; you shall make them of pure gold . 30 "You shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Exodus 25:23-30
Commentary on Exodus 25:23-30
(Read Exodus 25:23-30)
A table was to be made of wood, overlaid with gold, to stand in the outer tabernacle, to be always furnished with the shew-bread. This table, with the articles on it, and its use, seems to typify the communion which the Lord holds with his redeemed people in his ordinances, the provisions of his house, the feasts they are favoured with. Also the food for their souls, which they always find when they hunger after it; and the delight he takes in their persons and services, as presented before him in Christ.