2 Chronicles 4:3 BSB

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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And under it was the likeness of oxen, which did compass it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

KJV

And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For “oxen” we find in 1Ki 7:24, “knops” or “gourds.” An early copyist, not comprehending the comparatively rare word here used for “gourd,” and expecting to hear of oxen, as soon as the molten sea was mentioned, changed the reading.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

There is a difference in the accounts given of the capacity of this basin, for while in 1Ki 7:26 it is said that two thousand baths of water could be contained in it, in this passage no less than three thousand are stated.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּדְמ֣וּת	u.de.Mut	and [the] likeness of	H1823 →
בְּקָרִים֩	be.ka.Rim	oxen	H1241 →
תַּ֨חַת	Ta.chat	[was] under	H8478 →
ל֜וֹ	lo	<to> <the> it
סָבִ֤יב׀	sa.Viv	all around	H5439 →
סָבִיב֙	sa.Viv	all around	H5439 →
סוֹבְבִ֣ים	so.Vim	going round	H5437 →
אֹת֔וֹ	'o.To	<obj.> it	H853 →
עֶ֚שֶׂר	'E.ser	ten	H6235 →
בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה	ba.'a.Mah	by the cubit	H520 →
מַקִּיפִ֥ים	ma.ki.Fim	surrounding	H5362 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַיָּ֖ם	hai.Yam	the sea	H3220 →
סָבִ֑יב	sa.Viv	all around	H5439 →
שְׁנַ֤יִם	she.Na.yim	[were] two	H8147 →
טוּרִים֙	tu.Rim	rows	H2905 →
הַבָּקָ֔ר	ha.ba.Kar	the cattle	H1241 →
יְצוּקִ֖ים	ye.tzu.Kim	cast	H3332 →
בְּמֻֽצַקְתּֽוֹ׃	be.Mu.tzak.To	in casting its	H4166 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 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,…
- Ezekiel 10:21
  Each had four faces and four wings, with what looked like human hands under their wings.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Daniel 7:4
  The first beast was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted up from the ground and made to…
- Ezekiel 1:8
  Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four living creatures had faces and wings,
Through
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,…
leads to
- 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 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?
Through
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.
leads to
- 1 Kings 7:36
  He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and panels, wherever each had space, with wreaths all around.

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06About 2 Chronicles

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