Verse 27
1 Kings 7:27
New Living Translation
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Huram also made ten bronze water carts, each 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4 1⁄2 feet tall.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּ֧עַשׂ אֶת הַ/מְּכֹנ֛וֹת עֶ֖שֶׂר נְחֹ֑שֶׁת אַרְבַּ֣ע בָּ/אַמָּ֗ה אֹ֚רֶךְ הַ/מְּכוֹנָ֣ה הָֽ/אֶחָ֔ת וְ/אַרְבַּ֤ע בָּֽ/אַמָּה֙ רָחְבָּ֔/הּ וְ/שָׁלֹ֥שׁ בָּ/אַמָּ֖ה קוֹמָתָֽ/הּ
English Translation
And he made the ten bronze bases; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits its width, and three cubits was its height.
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Chapter 7 Context
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Solomon also built a palace for himself, and it took him thirteen years to complete the construction...
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One of Solomon’s buildings was called the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75...
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The hall had a cedar roof. Above the beams on the pillars were forty-five side rooms, arranged in th...
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On each end of the long hall were three rows of windows facing each other.
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All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames and were arranged in sets of three, facing eac...
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Solomon also built the Hall of Pillars, which was 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. There was a porch i...
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Solomon also built the throne room, known as the Hall of Justice, where he sat to hear legal matters...
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Solomon’s living quarters surrounded a courtyard behind this hall, and they were constructed the sam...
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From foundation to eaves, all these buildings were built from huge blocks of high-quality stone, cut...
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Some of the huge foundation stones were 15 feet long, and some were 12 feet long.
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The blocks of high-quality stone used in the walls were also cut to measure, and cedar beams were al...
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The walls of the great courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every...
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King Solomon then asked for a man named Huram to come from Tyre.
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He was half Israelite, since his mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had b...
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Huram cast two bronze pillars, each 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference.
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For the tops of the pillars he cast bronze capitals, each 7 1⁄2 feet tall.
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Each capital was decorated with seven sets of latticework and interwoven chains.
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He also encircled the latticework with two rows of pomegranates to decorate the capitals over the pi...
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The capitals on the columns inside the entry room were shaped like water lilies, and they were six f...
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The capitals on the two pillars had 200 pomegranates in two rows around them, beside the rounded sur...
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Huram set the pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one toward the south and one toward the north....
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The capitals on the pillars were shaped like water lilies. And so the work on the pillars was finish...
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Then Huram cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7 1⁄2 fe...
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It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of decorative gourds. There were about six gourds pe...
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The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three fac...
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The walls of the Sea were about three inches thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled...
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Huram also made ten bronze water carts, each 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4 1⁄2 feet tall.
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They were constructed with side panels braced with crossbars.
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Both the panels and the crossbars were decorated with carved lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and be...
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Each of these carts had four bronze wheels and bronze axles. There were supporting posts for the bro...
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The top of each cart had a rounded frame for the basin. It projected 1 1⁄2 feet above the cart’s top...
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Under the panels were four wheels that were connected to axles that had been cast as one unit with t...
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and were similar to chariot wheels. The axles, spokes, rims, and hubs were all cast from molten bron...
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There were handles at each of the four corners of the carts, and these, too, were cast as one unit w...
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Around the top of each cart was a rim nine inches wide. The corner supports and side panels were cas...
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Carvings of cherubim, lions, and palm trees decorated the panels and corner supports wherever there...
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All ten water carts were the same size and were made alike, for each was cast from the same mold.
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Huram also made ten smaller bronze basins, one for each cart. Each basin was six feet across and cou...
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He set five water carts on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side. The great bronze...
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He also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls. So at last Huram completed everything Kin...
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the two pillars;<br>the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;<br>the two networks of inter...
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the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of...
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the ten water carts holding the ten basins;<br>
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the Sea and the twelve oxen under it;<br>
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the ash buckets, the shovels, and the bowls.<br> Huram made all these things of burnished bronze for...
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The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.
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Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could no...
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Solomon also made all the furnishings of the Temple of the LORD: the gold altar;<br>the gold table f...
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the lampstands of solid gold, five on the south and five on the north, in front of the Most Holy Pla...
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the small bowls, lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners — all of solid gold;<br>the doors...
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So King Solomon finished all his work on the Temple of the LORD. Then he brought all the gifts his f...
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