1 Kings 7:30

Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and a basin resting on four supports, with wreaths at each side.

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KJV

And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.

ASV

And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet thereof had undersetters: beneath the laver were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side of each.

YLT

And four wheels of brass are to the one base, and axles of brass; and its four corners have shoulders--under the laver are the molten shoulders, beside each addition.

DBT

And every base had four wheels of brass, and axles of brass; and on its four corners were shoulder-pieces: under the laver were shoulder-pieces molten, behind every garland.

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The four wheels are the four books of the Gospels, which are very aptly compared with wheels because, just as the wheel's whirling motion can travel with the greatest rapidity wherever it is steered, so with the Lord's help through the instrumentality of the apostles …

Bede· Of the Temple of Solomon 2.20.7, 735patristic

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And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Plates of brass - Rather, brazen axletrees. The undersetters (literally, shoulders) are conjectured to have been four brackets, or bars, proceeding from the four upper corners of the bases, and stretching upward to the outer rim of the laver, which thus rested partly upon them. At the side of every addition - Rather, each opposite garlands. The laver was ornamented with a garland at the place where the support reached it.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

Wheels - Whereby the bases and lavers might be removed from place to place as need required. Under-setters - Hebrew. shoulders; fitly so called, because they supported the lavers, that they should not fall from their bases, when the bases were removed together with the lavers.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical

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Ezekiel 1:15–21
When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
Ezekiel 10:10–13
As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel.
Ezekiel 3:13
It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound.

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About this book

The Judgment of Solomon — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

1 Kings — From Solomon's glory to the divided kingdom — then Elijah's confrontation with Ahab and Jezebel dominating the second half. The promise of the Davidic covenant unfolding through temple glory, then beginning to unravel as idolatry and political fragmentation take hold.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (Bava Batra 15a). The book draws on court annals and prophetic records cited by name.
Date: Events c. 970–852 BC; compilation during the late Judahite monarchy or exile

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Ezekiel 3:13
It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures brushing against one another and the sound of the wheels beside them, a great rumbling sound.
leads to
- Ezekiel 1:24
  When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings like the roar of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they…
- Ezekiel 10:16–17
  When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side.
- Ezekiel 10:5
  The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.
- 2 Samuel 5:24
  As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because this will mean that the LORD has marched out before you to strike the camp…
- Ezekiel 1:15
  When I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.

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