2 Chronicles 4 · a question people ask
Ten tables and ten lamp stands, or one of each?
2 Chronicles 4 says ten of each: "He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them" (4:7), and "He made also ten tables" (4:8), and it speaks of "the tables with the show bread on them" (4:19). 1 Kings has the lamp stands, "five on the right side and five on the left" (1 Kings 7:49), and one table: "the table that the show bread was on" (1 Kings 7:48). Later in 2 Chronicles, Abijah speaks of "the pure table" and "the gold lamp stand with its lamps" (13:11), and Hezekiah is told, "We have cleansed all the LORD’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels" (29:18). The Bible doesn't say how these fit together, and this answer doesn't guess.
The verses
“He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them; and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand and five on the left. He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.”
“Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house: the golden altar, the tables with the show bread on them,”
“Solomon made all the vessels that were in the LORD’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold; and the lamp stands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;”
“Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:”