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1 Kings 7:13-15
New Catholic Bible
1 Kings 7:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 [a]King Solomon brought back Hiram from Tyre. 14 His mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been a craftsman from Tyre who worked in bronze. He was wise and knowledgeable and a skilled craftsman with all varieties of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all of his work.
15 He cast two bronze pillars, each of them measured eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.[b]
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- 1 Kings 7:13 We are grateful that the text has preserved for us the name of the expert craftsman in bronze, a man of Tyre (but with a Hebrew mother) who was thought worthy of executing the king’s great works. The “sea” (v. 23) is a great basin, containing the water for the priests’ ablutions. The ten basins on the movable stands were needed for supplying the water, of which a great deal was used, especially for washing the space in front after the immolation of the victims. There are other passages having to do with the temple objects and their use (Ex 30:17; 37; 38; 2 Chr 3–4; Ezek 20–43).
- 1 Kings 7:15 The bronze was booty taken by David in war (1 Chr 18:8).
