Text: 2 Chronicles 29:18
OT Text Referred to: Leviticus 24:5-9
Subject: showbread table restored under Hezekiah
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Contrast
Significance: Leviticus 24:5-9 prescribes the perpetual maintenance of the showbread (לֶחֶם הַפָּנִים): twelve loaves arranged on the pure table every Sabbath as an "everlasting covenant." 2 Chronicles 29:18 reports that Hezekiah's reform restored "the table of the showbread (שֻׁלְחַן הַמַּעֲרֶכֶת) with all its utensils," which had been defiled during Ahaz's reign. The Chronicler's inclusion of the showbread table alongside the altar and other furnishings implies that the entire Levitical sanctuary service had collapsed — the weekly bread arrangement, the perpetual lamps, and the altar sacrifices. Hezekiah's reform demonstrates a king who deliberately reinstates the Levitical regulations as the standard for faithful worship.