Axletree

How Nave’s arranged it

• Part of a wheeled vehicle1 Kings 7:321 Kings 7:33

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Kings 7:32

   There were four wheels under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand; each wheel was a cubit and a half in diameter.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 7:322 voices

   “And under the borders were four wheels,.... Not under the borders last mentioned, but those in 1Ki 7:29, and the axle trees of the wheels were joined to the base; to the four sides of it: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit; that is, from the plate of brass on which it stood, to the axis or semicircle of it; so that the highest part of the ring being also a cubit and an half, reached to the top of the base, it being but three cubits high, 1Ki 7:27.

   “The mouth of the laver was one cubit on account of the unity of confession and faith because we are all baptized in the confession of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, as the apostle says: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism, …

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2. 1 Kings 7:33

   The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 7:331 voice

   “And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel,.... In the same form and fashion as one of them; the Targum is, "like a chariot of glory;'' a splendid one, curiously wrought; unless reference is had in it to the chariot of Ezekiel's vision: their axle trees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten; cast together when the base was.

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