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1 Kings 7:40 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD: "
1 Kings 7:40
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Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
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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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