1 Kings 7:30

Contextual Overview

¹³King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram, ¹³ King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram, ¹³Then King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. ¹³ Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. ¹³ And king Solomon sent and fet one Hiram out of Tyre, ¹³ And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre. ¹³ King Solomon sent for a man named Huram who lived in Tyre and brought him to Jerusalem. ¹³ And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. ¹³ King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. ¹³ And king Solomon sent and fet Hiram out of Tyre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

wheels: Ezekiel 1:15-21, Ezekiel 3:13, Ezekiel 10:10-13

had undersetters: It is probable that these undersetters were so many strong legs, somewhat shorter than the wheels, and were intended to prevent the laver from tilting, or falling, in case of any accident.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass,.... Flat pieces or planks of brass, on which the wheels stood, and not on the bare floor; so that these wheels seem only to serve as supporters, not to carry the laver from place to place, as is usually said; for they were not like chariot wheels, on two sides of the carriage, but set one at each square; and besides, when the lavers were placed upon them, they were fixed in a certain place, 1 Kings 7:39

and the four corners thereof had undersetters; or "shoulders a", or pillars, which were placed on the plates of brass the wheels were; and served with them to support the lavers when laid upon the bases, and so were of the same use as men's shoulders, to bear burdens on them:

under the layer were undersetters molten; cast as, and when and where, the bases were, and the plates on which they stood; this explains the use they were of, being under the laver; these pillars stood at the four corners of the base:

at the side of every addition; made of thin work, 1 Kings 7:29 they stood by the side of, or within side, the sloping shelves.

a כתפת "humeri", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Plates of brass - Rather, “brazen axletrees.”

The “undersetters” (literally, “shoulders”) are conjectured to have been four brackets, or bars, proceeding from the four upper corners of the bases, and stretching upward to the outer rim of the laver, which thus rested partly upon them.

At the side of every addition - Rather, “each opposite garlands.” The laver was ornamented with a garland at the place where the support reached it.