1 Kings 7:30-40

30 Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. At the corners there were bronze supports for a large bowl, and the supports had designs of flowers.
31 There was a frame on top of the bowls, eighteen inches high above the bowls. The opening of the bowl was round, twenty-seven inches deep. Designs were carved into the bronze on the frame, which was square, not round.
32 The four wheels, placed under the frame, were twenty-seven inches high. The axles between the wheels were made as one piece with the stand.
33 The wheels were like a chariot's wheels. Everything on the wheels -- the axles, rims, spokes, and hubs -- were made of bronze.
34 The four supports were on the four corners of each stand. They were made as one piece with the stand.
35 A strip of bronze around the top of each stand was nine inches deep. It was also made as one piece with the stand.
36 The sides of the stand and the frames were covered with carvings of creatures with wings, as well as lions, palm trees, and flowers.
37 This is the way Huram made the ten stands. The bronze for each stand was melted and poured into a mold, so all the stands were the same size and shape.
38 Huram also made ten bronze bowls, one bowl for each of the ten stands. Each bowl was six feet across and could hold about two hundred thirty gallons.
39 Huram put five stands on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side. He put the large bowl in the southeast corner of the Temple.
40 Huram also made bowls, shovels, and small bowls.

1 Kings 7:30-40 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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