1 Kings 7:28

The NET Bible®

The stands were constructed with frames between the joints.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
This was the design of the carts: They had frames; the frames were between the cross-pieces,

Hebrew Names Version
The work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;

King James Version
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:

English Standard Version
This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in the frames,

New Century Version
The stands were made from square sides, which were put on frames.

Amplified Bible
This was the design of the stands: they had borders between the frames.

New American Standard Bible
This was the design of the stands: they had borders, that is, borders between the crossbars,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the worke of the bases was on this maner, They had borders, and the borders were betweene the ledges:

Legacy Standard Bible
Now this was the workmanship of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames,

Contemporary English Version
The sides were made with panels attached to frames decorated with flower designs. The panels themselves were decorated with figures of lions, bulls, and winged creatures.

Complete Jewish Bible
They were designed with panels that were set between the corner-posts,

Darby Translation
And the work of the bases was this: they had panels, and the panels were between the fillets.

Easy-to-Read Version
The carts were made with square panels set in frames.

George Lamsa Translation
And the work of the bases was in this manner: they had borders between panels;

Good News Translation
They were made of square panels which were set in frames,

Lexham English Bible
Now this was the construction of the stands: there were frames for them and frames between the crossbars,

Literal Translation
And this was the work of the base: they had borders; and there were borders between the stays.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The seate was made so, that it had sydes betwene the ledges.

American Standard Version
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;

Bible in Basic English
And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the worke of the feete was on this maner: They had sides, and the sides were betweene the ledges.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders; and there were borders between the stays;

King James Version (1611)
And the worke of the bases was on this maner: they had borders, and the borders were betweene the ledges:

English Revised Version
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders; and there were borders between the ledges:

Berean Standard Bible
This was the design of the stands: They had side panels attached to uprights,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thilke werk of foundementis was rasid bitwixe; and grauyngis weren bitwixe the ioynturis.

Young's Literal Translation
And this [is] the work of the base: they have borders, and the borders [are] between the joinings;

Update Bible Version
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;

Webster's Bible Translation
And the work of the bases [was] in this [manner]: They had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:

World English Bible
The work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;

New King James Version
And this was the design of the carts: They had panels, and the panels were between frames;

New Living Translation
They were constructed with side panels braced with crossbars.

New Life Bible
This is how the stands were made. They had sides of the same length between the cross-pieces.

New Revised Standard
This was the construction of the stands: they had borders; the borders were within the frames;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, this, was the work of the stand, there were, side walls, to them, - and, the side-walls, were between joining ledges;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the work itself of the bases, was intergraven: and there were gravings between the joinings.

Revised Standard Version
This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in the frames

New American Standard Bible (1995)
This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames,

Contextual Overview

¹³ King Solomon sent for Hiram of Tyre. ¹⁴ He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned. ¹⁵ He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference. ¹⁶ He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high. ¹⁷ The latticework on the tops of the pillars was adorned with ornamental wreaths and chains; the top of each pillar had seven groupings of ornaments. ¹⁸ When he made the pillars, there were two rows of pomegranate-shaped ornaments around the latticework covering the top of each pillar. ¹⁹ The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high. ²⁰ On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around. ²¹ He set up the pillars on the porch in front of the main hall. He erected one pillar on the right side and called it Yakin; he erected the other pillar on the left side and called it Boaz. ²² The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the construction of the pillars was completed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bases was on: It seems evident that these bases or pedestals rose with steps, and that the ornaments mentioned in the next verse appeared in front, forming so many entablatures. But the description of these bases is very difficult to comprehend: many of the original words are seldom, if at all, used elsewhere; and it would be impossible to give an explanation of each particular, without a labour and prolixity disproportioned to its importance to us. 1 Kings 7:28

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:40 - the lavers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the work of the bases was on this manner,.... The following was the form in which they were made:

they had borders; plates of brass all around them, which enclosed them:

and the borders were between the ledges; which were short staves or bars of brass, that stood upright all around, like the staves of a cart on each side, or the rails of a balcony, only in double rows; and between these were the borders or plates of brass.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Borders - Rather, “panels” (so 1 Kings 7:32, 1 Kings 7:35), a set of square compartments between the “ledges” or borders, or mouldings. Below the panelling, with its ornamentation of lions, oxen (the two animal forms which occur most frequently in Assyrian decoration), and cherubim, was a space decorated with “additions of thin work” 1 Kings 7:29.

Upon the “ledges” 1 Kings 7:29 which surrounded the top of the base there was a stand for the laver, distinct from the upper surface of the base.