1 Kings 7:32

32 The axles were attached under the stand and the wheels fixed to them. The wheels were twenty-seven inches in diameter;

1 Kings 7:32 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:32

And under the borders were four wheels
Not under the borders last mentioned, but those in ( 1 Kings 7:29 ) ,

and the axle trees of the wheels [were] joined to the base;
to the four sides of it:

and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit;
that is, from the plate of brass on which it stood, to the axis or semicircle of it; so that the highest part of the ring being also a cubit and an half, reached to the top of the base, it being but three cubits high, ( 1 Kings 7:27 ) .

1 Kings 7:32 In-Context

30 Each stand was mounted on four bronze wheels with bronze axles. The uprights were cast with decorative relief work.
31 Each stand held a basin on a circular engraved support a foot and a half deep set on a pedestal two and a quarter feet square. The washstand itself was square.
32 The axles were attached under the stand and the wheels fixed to them. The wheels were twenty-seven inches in diameter;
33 they were designed like chariot wheels. Everything - axles, rims, spokes, and hubs - was of cast metal.
34 There was a handle at the four corners of each washstand, the handles cast in one piece with the stand.
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