Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 1 Kings 7:26

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an hand breadth: Jer 52:21 with flowers: Kg1 7:19, Kg1 6:18, Kg1 6:32, Kg1 6:35 it contained: This immense laver, called a sea from it magnitude, held, at a moderate computation, 16,000 gallons. Besides this great brazen laver, there were in the temple ten lavers of brass of a less size, which moved on wheels, and were ornamented with the figures of various animals, having, probably, always some relation to the cherubim. These lavers were to hold water for the use of the priests in their sacred office, particularly to wash the victims that were to be offered as a burnt offering, as we learn from Ch2 4:6; but the brazen sea was for the priests to wash in. The knops are supposed to have been in the form of an ox's head ( Ch2 4:3); and some think the water flowed out at their mouths. two thousand: Kg1 7:38; Ch2 4:5; Eze 45:14 3 Kings (1 Kings) 7:27

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