“Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. from: Heb. from his brim to his brim”
A great vessel of brass, so called, because of the great quantity of water, which it contained, 1 Kings 7:24 .
“And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.”
Meaning, under the brim of the vessel, as 1 Kings 7:24 . In the length of every cubit were ten heads or knops which in all are 300.
“And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths. with flowers: or, like a lilyflower”
Or, flower delices. In 1 Kings 7:26 , mention is only made of two thousand, but the less number was taken there, and here according as the measures proved afterward, is declared.
“Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.”
Called also the porch of Solomon, Act 3:11 . It is also taken for the Temple where Christ preached, Matt. 21:23 .
“The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass. bright: Heb. made bright, or, scoured”
Whom Solomon reverenced for the gifts that God had given him, as a father: he had the same name also that Huram the king of Tyre had, his mother was a Jewess, and his father a Tyrian. Some read for his father, the author of this work.
“And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;”
In Hebrew, the bread of the faces, because they were set before the Ark, where the Lord showed his presence.
“And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold. basons: or, bowls”
Or, instruments of music. That is, covered with plates of gold.