1 Reyes 7:40

40 Hiram hizo también los calderos , las palas y los tazones. Así terminó Hiram toda la obra que hizo para el rey Salomón en la casa del SEÑOR:

1 Reyes 7:40 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:40

And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins,
&c.] The lavers are not the ten before mentioned, of the make of which an account is before given; but these, according to Jarchi and Ben Gersom, are the same with the pots, ( 1 Kings 7:45 ) and so they are called in ( 2 Chronicles 4:11 ) the use of which, as they say, was to put the ashes of the altar into; as the "shovels", next mentioned, were a sort of besoms to sweep them off, and the "basins" were to receive the blood of the sacrifices, and sprinkle it; no mention is here made of the altar of brass he made, but is in ( 2 Chronicles 4:11 ) , nor of the fleshhooks to take the flesh out of the pots, as in ( 2 Chronicles 4:16 ) ,

so Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made King Solomon
for the house of the Lord;
what he undertook, and was employed in, he finished, which were all works of brass; of which a recapitulation is made in the following verses to the end of the forty fifth, where they are said to be made of "bright brass", free of all dross and rust; "good", as the Targum, even the best brass they were made of; the brass David took from Hadarezer, ( 1 Chronicles 18:8 ) which Josephus ^F7 too much magnifies, when he says it was better than gold.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Antiqu. l. 7. c. 5. sect. 3.

1 Reyes 7:40 In-Context

38 También hizo diez pilas de bronce; en cada pila cabían cuarenta batos, cada pila medía cuatro codos, y sobre cada una de las diez basas había una pila.

39 Entonces colocó las basas, cinco al lado derecho de la casa y cinco al lado izquierdo de la casa; y colocó el mar de metal fundido al lado derecho de la casa hacia el sureste.

40 Hiram hizo también los calderos , las palas y los tazones. Así terminó Hiram toda la obra que hizo para el rey Salomón en la casa del SEÑOR:

41 las dos columnas y los tazones de los capiteles que estaban en lo alto de las dos columnas, las dos mallas para cubrir los dos tazones de los capiteles que estaban en lo alto de las columnas;

42 las cuatrocientas granadas para las dos mallas, dos hileras de granadas por cada malla para cubrir los dos tazones de los capiteles que estaban en lo alto de las columnas;

Footnotes

• [a]. As en 2 Crn. 4:11; en heb., las pilas