1 Kings 7:27-37

27 He made ten bronze stands. Each stand was 6 feet square and 4½ feet high.
28 The stands were made this way: They had side panels set in frames.
29 On the panels set in frames were lions, oxen, and angels. These were also on the frames. Above and below the lions and the cattle were engraved designs.
30 Each stand had four bronze wheels on bronze axles and four supports beneath the basin. The supports were made of cast metal with designs on the sides.
31 Each had a 1½-foot-deep opening in the center to the circular frame on top. The opening was round, formed like a pedestal, and was two feet [wide]. Around the opening there were engravings. But the panels were square, not round.
32 The four wheels were under the panels, and the axles were attached to the stand. Each wheel was two feet high.
33 The wheels were made like chariot wheels. The axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all cast metal.
34 The four supports at the four corners of each stand were part of the stand.
35 The top of each stand had a round, nine-inch-high band. Above the stand were supports which were part of the panels.
36 Hiram engraved angels, lions, palm trees, and designs in every available space on the supports and panels.
37 This is the way he made the ten stands. All of them were cast in the same mold, identical in size and shape.

1 Kings 7:27-37 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.

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