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The Other Bronze Implements

38 Hiram[a] also fashioned ten bronze basins, each holding about 40 baths,[b] each basin measuring four cubits[c] in diameter,[d] with one basin for each stand. 39 He set five of the stands on the right side of the Temple and five on the left side of the Temple. He set the bronze sea on the right side of the Temple eastward facing the south. 40 Hiram also made the basins, shovels, and bowls to complete the work that he performed for King Solomon in the Lord’s Temple,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:38 Lit. He
  2. 1 Kings 7:38 I.e. about 240 gallons; a bath held about six gallons
  3. 1 Kings 7:38 I.e. about six feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  4. 1 Kings 7:38 The Heb. lacks in diameter