He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
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He also made ten basins, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them. The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
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He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
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He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as belonged to the burnt-offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
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Passages linked to 2 Chronicles 4:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 7:38 He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.
- Exodus 30:18-21 “You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, in which to wash. You shall put it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it. Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it. When they go into the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water, that they not die; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire to Yahweh. So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die. This shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations.”
- 1 Kings 7:40 Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house:
- Psalms 51:2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
- Ezekiel 40:38 A room with its door was by the posts at the gates. They washed the burnt offering there.
- Exodus 29:4 You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
- Leviticus 1:9 but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 1:13 but the innards and the legs he shall wash with water. The priest shall offer the whole, and burn it on the altar. It is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 4:2 Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.
- 1 Corinthians 6:11 Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
- Hebrews 9:14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- Hebrews 9:23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
- 1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
- Revelation 1:5-6 and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood— and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
- Revelation 7:14 I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put…
2Ch 4:6 He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea [was] for the priests to wash in.
Ver. 6. He made also ten lavers.] See on 1Ki 7:37.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Ten lavers; of which see 1Ki 7:38, &c.
Ten lavers; of which see 1Ki 7:38, &c.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. He made also ten lavers] The lavers…
Verse 6. He made also ten lavers] The lavers served to wash the different parts of the victims in; and the molten sea was for the use of the priests. In this they bathed, or drew water from it for their personal purification.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Holocaust, as well as all the necessary utensils. ---…
Holocaust, as well as all the necessary utensils. --- Priests. They did not bathe in the sea, but drew water into other vessels. The Chaldean supposes that the work of Beseleel was for the high priest alone. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain THE TEN LAVERS, CANDLESTICKS, AND TABLES. (Ch2 4:6-18)
THE TEN LAVERS, CANDLESTICKS, AND TABLES. (Ch2 4:6-18)
ten lavers--(See on Kg1 7:27). The laver of the tabernacle had probably been destroyed. The ten new ones were placed between the porch and the altar, and while the molten sea was for the priests to cleanse their hands and feet, these were intended for washing the sacrifices.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6 (cp. 2Ch_4:14 and 1Ki_7:38-39). The Lavers
6 (cp. 2Ch_4:14 and 1Ki_7:38-39). The Lavers
6. such things as they offered for the burnt offering] R.V. such things as belonged to the burnt offering. The lavers were mounted on bases; cp. 2Ch_4:14.
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for the priests] Cp. Exo_30:18-21; Exo_38:8; Exo_40:30-32.
7 (= 1Ki_7:49). The Golden Candlesticks
ten candlesticks] Rather, the ten lamp-stands; cp. Exo_40:4.
according to their form] R.V. according to the ordinance concerning them; cp. Exo_25:31-37; Exo_40:4.
in the temple] In 1Ki_7:49 more precisely, before the oracle, i.e. before the Holy of Holies.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (2Ch_4:6). (Comp. 1Ki_7:27-39.)
THE TEN LAVERS: THEIR USE, AND THAT OF THE SEA
(2Ch_4:6). (Comp. 1Ki_7:27-39.)
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(6) The chronicler now returns to his abbreviating style, and omits altogether the description of the ten bases, or stands, upon which the lavers were placed, and which are described in full and curious detail in 1Ki_7:27-39. The unusual difficulty of the passage may have determined the omission, but it seems more likely that the sacred writer thought the bases of less importance than the objects described in 2Ch_4:7-9, the account of which he has interpolated between the first and second half of 1Ki_7:39.
He made also ten lavers.—And he made ten pans. The word kîyôr is used in 1Sa_2:14 as a pan for cooking, and in Zec_12:6 as a pan holding fire. Its meaning here and in the parallel place is a pan for washing. (Comp. Exo_30:18; Exo_30:28.) The LXX. renders λουτῆρας, “baths;” the Syriac, laqnê, “flagons” (lagenae, λάγηνοι).
To wash in them.—This statement, and, indeed, the rest of the verse is peculiar to the chronicler. On the other hand, 1Ki_7:38 specifies the size and capacity of the lavers here omitted.
Such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them.—This gives the meaning. Literally, the work (comp. Exo_29:36, “to do” being equivalent to “to offer”) of the burnt offering they used to rinse (strictly, thrust, plunge) in them.
But the sea was for the priests to wash in.—The Hebrew words have been transposed apparently. The same infinitive (lĕrohçâh) occurs in Exo_30:18; Exo_40:30, in a similar context. Instead of all this, the Syriac and Arabic versions read: “put them five on the right hand and five on the left, that the priests might wash in them their hands and their feet,” which appears to be derived from Exo_30:19; Exo_40:31.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This verse, with vers. 14, 15, are all here…
This verse, with vers. 14, 15, are all here that represent the lengthy account of bases rather than layers, occupying in the parallel vers. 27-39 of 1Ki 7, which, however, omits to state the use of either sea or layers.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 4:6 The Sea served the same purpose as the…
4:6 The Sea served the same purpose as the bronze washbasin in the Tabernacle (cp. Exod 30:18-19).
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