And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
The table in the holy place, spread always with twelve loaves, one for each tribe, showed God keeping a royal house and receiving His people as guests; the bread proclaimed their dependence on Providence and their covenant communion with Him, for God and Israel ate together from the same corn.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 25:23-30
And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold,.... As the ark had, and for the same use as the rings of that were, though whether cast, as they were, is not said: and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof; as there were four feet at the four corners of the table, to each foot a...
crown--the moulding or ornamental rim, which is thought to have been raised above the level of the table, to prevent anything from falling off.