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From Tebah and Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David removed a very large quantity of bronze.

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From Tebah[a] and Berothai,(A) towns that belonged to Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.

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  1. 2 Samuel 8:8 See some Septuagint manuscripts (see also 1 Chron. 18:8); Hebrew Betah.

15 [a](A)He fashioned two bronze columns, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

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  1. 7:15 The two bronze columns were called Jachin and Boaz (v. 21; also 2 Chr 3:17); the significance of the names is unclear. The columns stood to the right and left of the Temple porch, and may have been intended to mark the entrance to the building as the entrance to God’s private dwelling. Their extraordinary size and elaborate decoration would have made them the most impressive parts of the Temple visible to the ordinary viewer, who was not permitted into the nave, let alone into the innermost sanctuary. According to Jer 52:21, the columns were hollow, the bronze exterior being “four fingers thick.”

15 He cast two bronze pillars,(A) each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.[a]

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  1. 1 Kings 7:15 That is, about 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference or about 8.1 meters high and 5.4 meters in circumference

23 Then he made the molten sea;[a] it was made with a circular rim, and measured ten cubits across, five in height, and thirty in circumference.

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  1. 7:23–26 The molten sea: this was a large circular tank containing about twelve thousand gallons of water.

23 He made the Sea(A) of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line(B) of thirty cubits[a] to measure around it.

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  1. 1 Kings 7:23 That is, about 45 feet or about 14 meters

27 He also made ten stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four wide, and three high.

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27 He also made ten movable stands(A) of bronze; each was four cubits long, four wide and three high.[a]

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  1. 1 Kings 7:27 That is, about 6 feet long and wide and about 4 1/2 feet high or about 1.8 meters long and wide and 1.4 meters high