John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 7:29

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims, etc.] The figures of them, for ornament sake; the cherubim, being distinguished from lions and oxen might be figures of men, or else of eagles, as Josephus f124, (see <260110>Ezekiel 1:10) and upon the ledges there was a base above; a flat piece of brass laid upon the top of the staves or bars: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work; these, according to Dr. Lightfoot f125, whom I chiefly follow in this account, were shelving plates of brass at the bottom of the borders and bars, where the priests washed the sacrifice; the filth of which ran off the easier, through the angle of them.

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