1 Kings 7:45-51

45 the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls. All these objects that Huram made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of burnished bronze.

46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.

47 Solomon left all these things unweighed, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.

48 Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in the LORD’s temple: the golden altar; the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence;

49 the lampstands of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary); the gold floral work and lamps and tongs;

50 the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold sockets for the doors of the innermost room, the Most Holy Place, and also for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

51 When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver and gold and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple.

1 Kings 7:45-51 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 7

This chapter gives an account of some buildings of Solomon for himself, 1Ki 7:1-12; and of other things for the use of the temple; of two pillars of brass, 1Ki 7:13-22; of the molten sea, 1Ki 7:23-26; and of ten bases, and ten layers on them, 1Ki 7:27-39; with other utensils and ornaments, 1Ki 7:40-51.

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 27:3; Jeremiah 52:18
• 2. S ver 13
• 3. S Genesis 13:10; 2 Chronicles 4:17
• 4. S Genesis 33:17; Joshua 13:27
• 5. Joshua 3:16
• 6. 1 Chronicles 22:3; Jeremiah 52:20
• 7. Exodus 36:5-7
• 8. S ver 23
• 9. Exodus 39:32-43
• 10. S Exodus 25:23; Exodus 37:10
• 11. S Exodus 25:30
• 12. S Exodus 25:31-38
• 13. S Numbers 7:14
• 14. 2 Kings 25:13; Jeremiah 52:19
• 15. S 2 Samuel 8:11
• 16. 2 Kings 12:13; 2 Kings 24:13; Jeremiah 27:19