1 Kings 7:37-47

37 He made the ten stands like this in one cast, with the same measurement and shape for each of them.
38 He also made ten bronze basins, [each] holding forty baths; each basin [was] four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands.
39 He placed five of the stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side of the house, and the sea he set on the southeast side of the house.
40 Hiram also made the basins and the shovels and the bowls for drinking wine; and so Hiram finished doing all of the work {that he was to do} for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh:
41 the two pillars and the bowls of the capitals which [were] atop the two pillars, and the two lattice works to cover the two bowls of the capitals which [were] atop the pillars;
42 and the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the two lattice works, the two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments for each latticework to cover the two bowls of the capitals which [were] on the surface of the pillars;
43 and the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands;
44 and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea;
45 and the pots, the shovels, and the bowls for drinking wine. All the vessels of the tent which Hiram had made for King Solomon [for] the house of Yahweh [were] polished bronze.
46 The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan with the casting mold [set in] the ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
47 Solomon left all of the vessels [unweighed] because of their very great abundance, so the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

1 Kings 7:37-47 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.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "that he did"
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