a table.

Exodus 37:10-16 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof...

Exodus 40:22,23 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, on the side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil...

Leviticus 24:6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure table before the LORD.

Numbers 3:31 And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars...

1 Kings 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold...

1 Chronicles 28:16 And by weight he gave gold for the tables of show bread, for every table; and likewise silver for the tables of silver:

2 Chronicles 4:8,19 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left...

Ezekiel 40:41,42 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables...

Hebrews 9:2 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the show bread...

shittim wood. Shittim wood is probably the acacia Nilotica. Jerome says that the shittim wood grown in the deserts of Arabia, and is like white thorn, as to its colour and leaves; but the tree is so large as to furnish very long planks. The wood is hard, tough, and extremely beautiful. It is thought he means the black acacia, because that is the most common tree in the deserts of Arabia. It is of the size of a large mulberry tree. The spreading branches and larger limbs are armed with thorns, which grow three together. The bark is rough; and the leaves are oblong, standing opposite each other. The flowers, though sometimes white, are generally of a bright yellow; and the fruit, which resembles a bean, is contained in pods like those of the lupin. The acacia being by much the largest and most common tree in the deserts, says Dr. Shaw. We have some reason to conjecture that the shittim wood was the wood of the acacia, especially as its flowers are of an excellent smell; for the shittah tree is, in Is.

41:19, joined with the myrtle and other fragrant shrubs. It may be remarked, that of the two Hebrew names, shittim is masculine, and shittah feminine. So Mr. Bruce says, 'the male is called saiel; from its proceeds the gula Arabic, on incision with an axe.'