1 Kings 7:11
And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
In Context
12and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 7:2-13
The Building of the Temple. ( b. c. 1004.) 1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. 4 And there were windows in three rows, and… Read the whole commentary →