the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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1 Kings 7:24
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
knops: 1 Kings 6:18, Exodus 25:31-36, Exodus 37:17-22
compassing the sea: 2 Chronicles 4:3
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and also seven of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
and also seven pairs of every kind of bird, male and female, to keep their various kinds alive throughout the earth.
also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep their seed alive on the face of all the earth.
also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
Of foules also of the ayre seuen and seuen, the male and the female, to kepe seede alyue vpon the face of all the whole earth.
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.
and seven pairs of the birds of the air also, male and female, to keep their kind alive upon the face of all the earth.
but also of volatils of heuene thou schalt take, bi seuene and bi seuene, male and female, that her seed be saued on the face of al erthe.
Of fowles also of the aire, by seuens, the male & the female; to keepe seed aliue vpon the face of all the earth.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it,.... Of an oval form, and therefore the Targum calls them figures of eggs; in 2 Chronicles 4:3 they are said to have the similitude of oxen, being like the heads of oxen, and the other parts oval; or these were in the form of gourds, as sometimes the word is rendered, 2 Kings 4:39 which had on them the figures of the heads of oxen, and might serve as cocks to let out the water:
ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about it; and as the circumference was thirty cubits, there must be three hundred of these in the circuit:
the knops were cast in two rows when it was cast; for these were cast together with the sea, and being in two rows, there must be in all six hundred of them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Knops - literally, “gourds,” - i. e. a boss or ball ornament encircled the rim of the bowl in two rows.