1 Kings 7:40-50

40 He also made the pots[a] and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of the LORD:
41 the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);
43 the ten stands with their ten basins;
44 the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
45 the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls. All these objects that Huram made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of burnished bronze.
46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.
47 Solomon left all these things unweighed, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
48 Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in the LORD’s temple: the golden altar; the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence;
49 the lampstands of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary); the gold floral work and lamps and tongs;
50 the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold sockets for the doors of the innermost room, the Most Holy Place, and also for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

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.

Cross References 16

  • 1. S Exodus 27:3; Jeremiah 52:18
  • 2. S ver 16; ver 20
  • 3. S Exodus 27:3; Jeremiah 52:18
  • 4. S ver 13
  • 5. S Genesis 13:10; 2 Chronicles 4:17
  • 6. S Genesis 33:17; Joshua 13:27
  • 7. Joshua 3:16
  • 8. 1 Chronicles 22:3; Jeremiah 52:20
  • 9. Exodus 36:5-7
  • 10. S ver 23
  • 11. Exodus 39:32-43
  • 12. S Exodus 25:23; Exodus 37:10
  • 13. S Exodus 25:30
  • 14. S Exodus 25:31-38
  • 15. S Numbers 7:14
  • 16. 2 Kings 25:13; Jeremiah 52:19

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac and Vulgate (see also verse 45 and 2 Chron. 4:11); many other Hebrew manuscripts "basins"
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