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1 Kings 7:27

in 1 Kings 7

In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And he made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

KJV

And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

This verse in 1 Kings 7

Commentary

7 notes on this verse
Ten bases of brass - These were for the ten lavers (1Ki 7:38. See 2Ch 4:6). In general terms the bases were square stands, 6 feet each way, and 4 12 feet high, elaborately ornamented on their four sides, and resting upon four wheels, 2 14 feet in diameter. Each stand supported a laver 6 feet high, which contained 40 baths 1Ki 7:38, or about 340 gallons.

This site's exposition

ten bases of brass

on 1 Kings 7:27-37

Ten wheeled stands, each carved with lions, oxen, cherubims and palm trees, their wheels made like the work of a chariot wheel, all of them one casting, one measure, and one size. Cherubim, wheels and living faces together read like a first sketch of what Ezekiel later sees in motion, a likeness the commentators draw and the page marks as theirs. The washing apparatus of the house rolls; cleansing in this architecture is designed to move to its work.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Bede

Of the Temple of Solomon 2.20.3 · Written before 735.

proposed

However, that each of the bases was four cubits long and four cubits high is easy to understand. For the length refers to the patience of long endurance, the width to the expansiveness of love, the height to the hope of heavenly reward. Moreover, there …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

And he made ten bases of brass,.... Seats, stands, or settles for the ten lavers after mentioned: four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof; as broad as it was long, and so a square, that the laver might stand firm upon it: and three cubits the height of it; from the ground plates to the surface, that the priests might be able to reach the layers, and wash their sacrifices.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

They were curiously adorned and set upon wheels, that the lavers might be removed as there was occasion; but ordinarily they stood in two rows, five on one side of the court and five on the other,

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

he made ten bases of brass--These were trucks or four-wheeled carriages, for the support and conveyance of the lavers. The description of their structure shows that they were elegantly fitted up and skilfully adapted to their purpose. They stood, not on the axles, but on four rests attached to the axles, so that the figured sides were considerably raised above the wheels.

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A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

He made ten bases - That is, pedestals, for the ten lavers to rest on.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • וַיַּ֧עַשׂand he made

    vaiyaasH62132628 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַמְּכֹנ֛וֹתthe stands

    hamekhonotH435024 times

  • עֶ֖שֶׂרten

    ʾeserH6235176 times

  • נְחֹ֑שֶׁתbronze

    nechoshetH5178140 times

  • אַרְבַּ֣ע[was] four

    ʾarba'H702318 times

  • בָּאַמָּ֗הby the cubit

    baamahH520247 times

  • אֹ֚רֶךְ[the] length of

    ʾorekhH75395 times

  • הַמְּכוֹנָ֣הthe stand

    hamekhonahH435024 times

  • הָֽאֶחָ֔ת<the> one

    haechatH259971 times

  • וְאַרְבַּ֤עand [was] four

    vearba'H702318 times

  • בָּֽאַמָּה֙by the cubit

    baamahH520247 times

  • רָחְבָּ֔הּbreadth its

    rachebahH7341101 times

  • וְשָׁלֹ֥שׁand [was] three

    veshaloshH7969432 times

  • בָּאַמָּ֖הby the cubit

    baamahH520247 times

  • קוֹמָתָֽהּ׃height its

    komatahH696745 times

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

The walk

8 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 Kings 25:13

    Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 36:18

      who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Kings 20:17

      The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.

    • Lamentations 1:10

      The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

    • Jeremiah 52:17–20

      Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

    • 1 Kings 7:15

      He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 52:20

    As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 7:47

      Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 52:17

    Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 27:19–22

      For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 4:14

    the stands; the basins on the stands;

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 7:27–43

      In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

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 2.20.3; F. W. Farrar, The First Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.