1 Kings 7:25

Contextual Overview

¹³King Solomon had Hiram brought from Tyre. ¹³ King Shlomo sent and fetched Hiram out of Tzor. ¹³ And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. ¹³ And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. ¹³ King Solomon sent to Tyre and had Huram brought to him. ¹³ King Solomon sent for Hiram of Tyre. ¹³Now King Solomon sent word and brought Hiram [a skilled craftsman] from Tyre. ¹³ Now King Solomon sent word and had Hiram brought from Tyre. ¹³ Then King Salomon sent, and set one Hiram out of Tyrus. ¹³Then King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Chronicles 4:4, 2 Chronicles 4:5, Jeremiah 52:20, Ezekiel 1:10, Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:15, Mark 16:16, Luke 24:47, 1 Corinthians 9:9, Revelation 4:6, Revelation 4:7

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:29 - lions

Gill's Notes on the Bible

It stood upon twelve oxen,.... Figures of them in brass, of full proportion:

three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and so turned to the four quarters of the world:

and the sea was set above upon them; as it were on the backs of them, and their mouths served as spouts or cocks, to let water out of it on all sides:

and all their hinder parts were inward; that they might not be seen, and which met in a centre; they that were north came against those that were south, and they in the east met with those to the west. The brass of the sea, according to Jacob Leon r, weighed 1,800 arobas, and, with twelve oxen under, 33,500; each aroba being twenty five pounds weight.

r Relation of Memorable Things in the Temple, ch. 4. p. 21.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Josephus charged Solomon with a breach of the Commandment Exodus 20:4-5, on account of the oxen here and the lions for his throne. The charge expresses the prohibition which some Jews have conceived the Commandment to urge against the arts of sculpture and painting.