1 Chronicles 18:8

David also took a large quantity of bronze from Tibhath and from Cun, towns that had belonged to Hadadezer. Solomon used that bronze to make the bronze sea, the columns, and the various bronze objects.

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Likewise from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, brought David very much brass, wherewith Solomon made the brasen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

In Context

7David took the shields of gold that were carried by Hadadezer's officers and brought them to Jerusalem.

9When Tou, king of Hamath, learned that David had destroyed the entire army of Hadadezer, king of Zobah,

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Cross References

1 Kings 7:15He cast two columns in bronze. They were both eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

2 Chronicles 3:15He made two columns for the front of the Temple, thirty-five cubits high, each having a capital five cubits high.

2 Chronicles 4:12the two columns; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the columns; the two sets of network that covered both bowls of the capitals on top of the columns;

Jeremiah 52:17The Babylonians broke into pieces the bronze pillars, the movable carts, and the bronze Sea that belonged to the Lord's Temple, and they took all the bronze to Babylon.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 18:2-9

David's Victories. ( b. c. 1042.) 1 Now after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and her towns out of the hand of the Philistines. 2 And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became David's servants, and brought gifts. 3 And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates. 4 And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the… Read the whole commentary →

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