1 Kings 7:32

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

joined to the base: Heb. in the base, 1 Kings 7:32

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And under the borders were four wheels,.... Not under the borders last mentioned, but those in 1 Kings 7:29,

and the axle trees of the wheels [were] joined to the base; to the four sides of it:

and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit; that is, from the plate of brass on which it stood, to the axis or semicircle of it; so that the highest part of the ring being also a cubit and an half, reached to the top of the base, it being but three cubits high, 1 Kings 7:27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With the diameter (2 14 ft.) of the wheel here, may be compared that of the earliest Assyrian chariot-wheels, which was under 3 feet; and that of the front wheels seen in representations of Assyrian close carriages, which scarcely exceed 14th of the height of the entire vehicle. The wheels of these moveable lavers appear to have been a little less than 15th of the height of the whole structure.