Exodus 37:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Observe how much the dispensation of the gospel exceeds that of the law. Though here was a table furnished, it was only with show- bread, bread to be looked upon, not to be fed upon, while it was on the table, and afterward only by the priest: but to the table Christ has spread, in the new covenant, all good Christians are invited as guests, and to them it is said, Eat, O friends, come, eat of my bread. What the law gave but a sight of at a distance, the gospel gives the enjoyment of.

Exodus 37:10

10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof: