1 Rois 7:40

40 Hiram fit les cendriers, les pelles et les coupes. Ainsi Hiram acheva tout l'ouvrage que le roi Salomon lui fit faire pour la maison de l'Eternel;

1 Rois 7:40 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:40

And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins,
&c.] The lavers are not the ten before mentioned, of the make of which an account is before given; but these, according to Jarchi and Ben Gersom, are the same with the pots, ( 1 Kings 7:45 ) and so they are called in ( 2 Chronicles 4:11 ) the use of which, as they say, was to put the ashes of the altar into; as the "shovels", next mentioned, were a sort of besoms to sweep them off, and the "basins" were to receive the blood of the sacrifices, and sprinkle it; no mention is here made of the altar of brass he made, but is in ( 2 Chronicles 4:11 ) , nor of the fleshhooks to take the flesh out of the pots, as in ( 2 Chronicles 4:16 ) ,

so Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made King Solomon
for the house of the Lord;
what he undertook, and was employed in, he finished, which were all works of brass; of which a recapitulation is made in the following verses to the end of the forty fifth, where they are said to be made of "bright brass", free of all dross and rust; "good", as the Targum, even the best brass they were made of; the brass David took from Hadarezer, ( 1 Chronicles 18:8 ) which Josephus ^F7 too much magnifies, when he says it was better than gold.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Antiqu. l. 7. c. 5. sect. 3.

1 Rois 7:40 In-Context

38 Il fit dix bassins d'airain. Chaque bassin contenait quarante baths, chaque bassin avait quatre coudées, chaque bassin était sur l'une des dix bases.

39 Il plaça cinq bases sur le côté droit de la maison, et cinq bases sur le côté gauche de la maison; et il plaça la mer du côté droit de la maison, au sud-est.

40 Hiram fit les cendriers, les pelles et les coupes. Ainsi Hiram acheva tout l'ouvrage que le roi Salomon lui fit faire pour la maison de l'Eternel;

41 deux colonnes, avec les deux chapiteaux et leurs bourrelets sur le sommet des colonnes; les deux treillis, pour couvrir les deux bourrelets des chapiteaux sur le sommet des colonnes;

42 les quatre cents grenades pour les deux treillis, deux rangées de grenades par treillis, pour couvrir les deux bourrelets des chapiteaux sur le sommet des colonnes;