Matthew Poole and continuators on Leviticus 24:8

8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant

When it was called the shew-bread, Heb. the bread of faces or of presence, i. e. the bread which was put upon the Table in the Lords presence.

Such supplements are not unusual. Thus in the floor, 1 King. 22. 10. is put for sitting in the floor, 2 Chron. 18. 9. and burdens, 2 Chron. 2. 18. for carrying burdens, 1 King. 5. 15. And these cakes are said to be received from or offered by the children of Israel, because they were bought with the mony which they contributed, as may be seen Nehem. 10. 32, 33. as Iudas is said to purchase the field, Act. 1. 18. which was purchased by his money, Ma[illegible: 1+ letters]. 27. 7.

By vertue of that compact made between me and them, by which they are obliged to keep this amongst other commands, and, they so doing, I am obliged to be their God and to bless them. And this may be here called an everlasting covenant, not onely because it was to endure as long as the Iewish religion and policy stood, but also because this was to stand there everlastingly, or continually as is here said, and therefore the new cake; were first brought before the old were taken away.