1 Kings 7:13
And 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.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
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.
Cross References
Exodus 31:3And I have filled him with a divine spirit of wisdom, and understanding, and knowledge, to invent in every work,
2 Chronicles 2:6And now send me a man wise and skilled to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in blue, and one that knows how to grave together with the craftsmen who are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, which materials my father David prepared.
2 Chronicles 4:11And Hiram made the fleshhooks, and the fire pans, and the grate of the altar, and all its instruments: and Hiram finished doing all the work which he wrought for King Solomon in the house of God:
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 →