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1 Kings 7:37 KJV
1 Kings · chapter 7 · verse 37
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.1 Kings 7:37 · King James Version
1 Kings 7:37 in context
35And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
36For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
37After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
38Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
39And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- castingmûwtsâqproperly, fusionH4165 →
- measuremiddâhproperly, extensionH4060 →
- basesmᵉkôwnâha pedestal, also a spotH4350 →
- madeʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationH6213 →
- sizeqetsebshapeH7095 →
- tenʻesertenH6235 →
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We have here an account of the brass-work about the temple. There was no iron about the temple, though we find David preparing for the temple iron for things of iron, Ch1 29:2. What those things were we are not told, but some of the things of brass are here described and the rest mentioned. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-47