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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
Cross-References
Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the eretz.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
as well as from the birds of heaven seven pairs, male and female, to keep their kind alive on the face of the earth.
Take seven pairs of all the birds of the sky, each male with its female. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the flood.
and also seven of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the earth.
also of the birds of the air, seven pair, the male and the female, to keep the offspring alive on the surface of the earth.
also of the birds of the sky, seven pairs, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.
Of the foules also of the heauen by seuens, male and female, to keepe seede aliue vpon the whole 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 take seven pairs of every kind of bird with you. Do this so there will always be animals and birds on 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.
