2 Chronicles 4:6

And he made ten lavers, and set five on the right hand—and five on the left, to bathe therein, what is offered as an ascending-sacrifice, do they rinse therein,—but, the sea, was, that the priests should bathe therein.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

In Context

5And, the thickness thereof, was a hand-breadth, and, the brim thereof, was like the brim-work of a cup, with blossoms of lilies,—it could hold [many] baths, three thousand, would it contain.

7And he made ten lampstands of gold according to the regulation thereof,—and set in the temple, five, on the right hand, and, five, on the left.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:4And Aaron and his sons, shalt thou bring near, unto the opening of the tent of meeting,—and shalt bathe them in water.

Leviticus 1:9But its inwards and its legs, shall they bathe with water,—then shall the priest make, of the whole, a perfume at the altar, an ascending-sacrifice an altar-flame of a satisfying odour unto Yahweh.

1 Kings 7:38Then made he ten lavers of bronze,—forty baths, would each laver contain, four cubits, was each laver, one laver, was on each of, the ten stands.

2 Chronicles 4:2And he made a molten sea,—ten—by the cubit, from the one brim thereof into the other brim thereof, it was round all about, and, five—by the cubit, was the height thereof, and, a line—of thirty by the cubit, did compass it round about.

Ezekiel 40:38And there was a chamber with its entrance, within the projections at the gates,— there, shall they rinse the ascending-sacrifice,

Hebrews 9:14How much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who through an age-abiding spirit offered himself unspotted unto God, purify our conscience from dead works, to the rendering of divine-service, unto a 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 →

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