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1 Kings 7:24

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Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And under the brim of it round about there were knops which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about: the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

KJV

And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.

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This verse in 1 Kings 7

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Knops - Carved or molten figures: for this word signifies figures or pictures of all sorts. Ten, &c. - So there were three hundred in all. Cast - Together with the sea; not carved.

This site's exposition

a molten sea

on 1 Kings 7:23-26

The tabernacle's laver has grown into a sea: ten cubits across, five high, two thousand baths, standing on twelve oxen facing the four quarters, with a brim wrought like a lily cup. The given round numbers, ten across and thirty about, are the old arithmetic question; the bench answers it from the text's own detail that the sea was an hand breadth thick, so the line and the diameter measure different edges, and the page needs no more than that sentence. Twelve oxen under the water carry the same all-Israel signature as Elijah's twelve stones.

This site's exposition

ornamental buds encircled it

The buds were gourd-shaped bosses, in Albert Barnes's reading, set in two rows below the rim. John Wesley counts three hundred in all at ten to the cubit. They were cast with the Sea in one pour.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Of the Temple of Solomon 2.19.4 · Written before 735.

proposed

"And a carved work under its brim surrounded it, encircling the sea for ten cubits. There were two rows cast of chamfered sculptures." Since it has been said above that a line of thirty cubits encircled the sea and it is now added that this …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

he made a molten sea--In the tabernacle was no such vessel; the laver served the double purpose of washing the hands and feet of the priests as well as the parts of the sacrifices.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase

Knops - literally, “gourds,” - i. e. a boss or ball ornament encircled the rim of the bowl in two rows.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּפְקָעִים֩and gourds

    ufekaimH6497 →3 times

  • מִתַּ֨חַת[were] from under

    mitachatH8478 →505 times

  • לִשְׂפָת֤וֹ׀to lip its

    lisfatoH8193 →176 times

  • סָבִיב֙all around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • סֹבְבִ֣ים[they were] surrounding

    soevimH5437 →161 times

  • אֹת֔וֹ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • עֶ֚שֶׂרten

    ʾeserH6235 →176 times

  • בָּֽאַמָּ֔הby the cubit

    baamahH520 →247 times

  • מַקִּפִ֥ים[they were] surrounding

    makifimH5362 →

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיָּ֖םthe sea

    haiyamH3220 →396 times

  • סָבִ֑יבall around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • שְׁנֵ֤י[were] two

    sheneiH8147 →768 times

  • טוּרִים֙rows

    turimH2905 →26 times

  • הַפְּקָעִ֔יםthe gourds

    hapekaimH6497 →3 times

  • יְצֻקִ֖ים[they were] cast

    yetzukimH3332 →50 times

  • בִּיצֻקָתֽוֹ׃in casting its

    bitzukatoH3333 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 4:3

    Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 9:9–10

      For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?

    • Ezekiel 10:14

      Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.

    • Revelation 4:7

      The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.

    • Ezekiel 1:10

      The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side,…

    • 1 Kings 7:24–26

      Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 2.19.4; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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