1 Kings 7:33-43

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.
35 At the top of the washstand there was a ring about nine inches deep. The uprights and handles were cast with the stand.
36 Everything and every available surface was engraved with cherubim, lions, and palm trees, bordered by arabesques.
37 The washstands were identical, all cast in the same mold.
38 He also made ten bronze washbasins, each six feet in diameter with a capacity of 230 gallons, one basin for each of the ten washstands.
39 He arranged five stands on the south side of The Temple and five on the north. The Sea was placed at the southeast corner of The Temple.
40 Hiram then fashioned the various utensils: buckets and shovels and bowls. Hiram completed all the work he set out to do for King Solomon on The Temple of God:
41 two pillars; two capitals on top of the pillars; two decorative filigrees for the capitals;
42 four hundred pomegranates for the two filigrees (a double row of pomegranates for each filigree);
43 ten washstands each with its washbasin; one Sea;

1 Kings 7:33-43 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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