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1 Kings 7:35 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same. "
1 Kings 7:35
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And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
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1 Kings 7:1
"But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house."
1 Kings 7:2
"He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an 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."
1 Kings 7:3
"And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row."
1 Kings 7:4
"And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks."
1 Kings 7:5
"And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks."
1 Kings 7:6
"And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them."
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