1 Kings 7:12

and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily flower, and the thickness of it was a span.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

In Context

11And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;

13And there were twelve oxen under the sea; three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts were inward, and the sea was above upon them.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:36a and he made the curtain of the court of the porch of the house that was in front of the temple.

2 Chronicles 4:9Also he made the priests’ court, and the great court, and doors to the court, and their panels were overlaid with brass.

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 →

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