Of the gold lampstands. These are the ten lampstands that Solomon made (2 Chronicles 4:7). We do not find that he made silver lampstands, however. To what, then, does “and of the silver lampstands” refer? It seems that he made silver lampstands for the priests’ quarters to give them light, because they ate and slept there. But it was the gold ones that were in the Great Hall—ten of them: five to the right of the one that Moses made, and five to the left of it. Similarly, it was the gold tables (v. 16) that were for the bread of display, whereas the silver tables (ibid.) were used for slaughtering, and for placing upon them the flesh of the burnt offering to be cut up. For even though the text does not mention this in the account of the construction of the Temple (2 Chronicles 3:1–4:22), we know it from the construction of the Temple that Ezekiel witnessed in a prophetic vision.