2 Chronicles 4:8
He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold. He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.
The verse records the furnishings Solomon placed in the temple as ten tables, five on the right side and five on the left, together with one hundred basins of gold. The ten tables stood in the first apartment of the temple. They were for the consecrated bread. That bread was placed before the Lord each Sabbath.
In that same first apartment were ten candlesticks, in place of the single seven-branched candlestick used in the wilderness tent. They lit the otherwise dark interior, which had only small loopholes in its walls. If each candlestick had seven branches, their seventy branches could signify the seventy elders of the congregation.
The sanctuary vessels were greater in number than those in the tabernacle, continuing its arrangement on a larger scale as part of the temple's enlarged, permanent design. The temple used vessels of the same kind and the same ministry as the tabernacle. It had two holy places, and its holy places and furnishings followed the pattern of the heavenly temple. The account shows that Hiram Abiff completed the work for which Solomon employed him and so must have lived until after the temple was finished, and it gives no account of his death or burial.