2 Chronicles 4:1-3
1599 Geneva Bible
4 1 The altar of brass. 2 The molten sea. 6 The caldrons. 7 The candlesticks, etc.
1 And he made an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.
2 And he made a molten [a]Sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits high: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about.
3 And under [b]it was the fashion of oxen, which did compass it round about, [c]ten in a cubit compassing the Sea about: two rows of oxen were cast when it was molten.
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- 2 Chronicles 4:2 A great vessel of brass, so called, because of the great quantity of water, which it contained, 1 Kings 7:24.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 Meaning, under the brim of the vessel, as 1 Kings 7:24.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 In the length of every cubit were ten heads or knops which in all are 300.
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