1 Kings 7:39

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

side: Heb. shoulder

he set: 2 Chronicles 4:6, 2 Chronicles 4:10

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he put five bases on the right side of the house,.... On the south side, which is commonly understood; that is, of the courts of the priests, where they were placed for their use: and five on the left side of the house; on the north, as it must be, if the south is on the right; though as the entrance into the temple was at the east, when a man went in, the north must be on the right, and the south on the left; and this seems to be the position by what follows:

and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, over against the south; and therefore the right side must be the north, which is opposite to the south; the sea seems to have stood northeast, which was for the priests to wash in before they entered on divine service, :- hence it became customary with the Heathens to wash before they performed any religious worship e, particularly the hands and feet f.

e Vid. Virgil. Bucolic. Eclog. 8. "affer aquam", &c. Aeneid. 2. "attrectare nefas", &c. Macrob. Saturnal. l. 3. c. l. f Vid. Sperling de Bapt. Ethnic. p. 88, 89, 101.