2 Chronicles 4:16
also the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other implements that Huram-Abi made of polished bronze for King Solomon, for the house of Yahweh. + 4:16 Instead of meat forks , some versions have bowels .
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15one sea and the twelve bulls under it,
17The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
Cross References
Exodus 38:3He made all the equipment for the altar—pots for ashes, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans. He made all this equipment with bronze.
1 Kings 7:13King Solomon sent for Huram and brought him from Tyre.
1 Chronicles 18:8From Tebah and Kun, cities of Hadadezer, David took very much bronze. It was with this bronze that Solomon later made the bronze basin called “The Sea,” the pillars, and the bronze equipment.
2 Chronicles 2:13Now I have sent a skillful man, Huram-Abi, who is gifted with understanding.
Zechariah 14:20But on that day, the bells of the horses will say, “Set apart to Yahweh,” and the basins in Yahweh's house will be like the bowls before the altar.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 4:12-22
11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; 12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; 13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.… Read the whole commentary →