2 Chronicles 4:6
He also made ten basins on carts for washing. He placed five on the south side, and five on the north. They were used for cleaning what was used in burnt offerings, but the Sea was used by the priests for washing.
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Exodus 29:4Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.
Leviticus 1:9You shall wash the insides and legs with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, to be accepted by the Lord.
1 Kings 7:38Then he made ten bronze basins. Each one held forty baths and measured four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten carts.
2 Chronicles 4:2He made a “Sea” from cast metal, ten cubits in diameter, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
Ezekiel 40:38A room with a doorway stood beside by the porch of the inner gateways. This was where the burnt offering was washed.
Hebrews 9:14how much more does the blood of Christ—who offered himself in his sinless life to God through the eternal Spirit—clean your consciences from your past sinful lives so you can serve the living God?
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 4:2-11
The Furniture of the Temple. ( b. c. 1012.) 1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. 2 Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. 3 And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when… Read the whole commentary →