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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 7:35 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ki 7:35 |
King James |
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| A round compass - A circular elevation, half a cubit high, rather than a circular depression, half a cubit deep. Compare Kg1 7:29. The "ledges" and "borders" of the top of the base were its "hands" and its "panels." These "hands," distinct from the "shoulders" Kg1 7:30, were probably supports, adorned with engraved plates Kg1 7:36, either of the elevated circle on which the laver stood, or of the lower part of the laver itself. Both panels and "hands" were "of the same," i. e. of one piece with the base, cast at the same time. |
36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
30 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.
29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.