1 Kings 7:40-50

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;
44 twelve bulls under the Sea;
45 miscellaneous buckets, shovels, and bowls.
46 He cast them in clay in a foundry on the Jordan plain between Succoth and Zarethan.
47 These artifacts were never weighed - there were far too many! Nobody has any idea how much bronze was used.
48 Solomon was also responsible for all the furniture and accessories in The Temple of God: the gold Altar; the gold Table that held the Bread of the Presence;
49 the pure gold candelabras, five to the right and five to the left in front of the Inner Sanctuary; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
50 the pure gold dishes, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; the gold sockets for the doors of the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, used also for the doors of the Main Sanctuary.

1 Kings 7:40-50 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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