2 Chronicles 4:3 KJV — MannaFest

2 Chronicles 4:3

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.

KJV

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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.

WEB

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.

YLT

And the likeness of oxen is under it, all round about encompassing it, ten in the cubit, compassing the sea round about; two rows of oxen are cast in its being cast.

DBT

And under it was the similitude of oxen, encompassing it round about, ten in a cubit enclosing the sea round about, two rows of oxen, cast when it was cast.

About this book

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2 Chronicles — Solomon to the exile — retold through the southern kings only. A priestly history that keeps its lens on the temple, on reform kings, and on the repentance formula (7:14) that will be quoted in a thousand sermons.

Author: The Chronicler (traditional — Ezra)
Date: Post-exilic, c. 450–400 BC

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Cross-references

5 verses on the floor

1 Corinthians 9:9–10
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
Ezekiel 10:14
And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
Revelation 4:7
And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
Ezekiel 1:10
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
1 Kings 7:24–26
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.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

It was put just at the entrance into the court of the priests, like the font at the church door. If it were filled to the brim, it would hold 3000 baths (as here,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Words6

Word trails from this verse

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

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

2CH 4:3REV 4:7 EZE 10:14
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
2CH 4:3REV 4:7 EZE 1:10
2CH 4:3REV 4:7 EZE 10:21
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
2CH 4:3EZE 1:10 REV 4:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
2CH 4:3REV 4:7 DAN 7:4
2CH 4:3REV 4:7 EZE 1:8
2CH 4:3EZE 10:14 1KI 7:36
2CH 4:3EZE 1:10 1CO 9:9-10

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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