1 Kings 7:36

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

graved cherubims: 1 Kings 7:29, 1 Kings 6:29, 1 Kings 6:32, 1 Kings 6:35, Ezekiel 40:31, Ezekiel 40:37, Ezekiel 41:18-20, Ezekiel 41:25, Ezekiel 41:26

proportion: Heb. nakedness

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 10:14 - every Ezekiel 10:20 - and I Ezekiel 40:22 - palm trees

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof,.... In this, and the preceding verse, a different word is used, translated "ledges", from that in 1 Kings 7:28, the Targum renders it axle trees; as if the axle trees of the wheels, and the borders, circumferences, and rings of them, were meant, in which were the following engravings: it literally signifies hands or handles; and Procopius Gazaeus says, that the bases had, in the upper part of them, forms of hands holding a circle like a crown:

he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of everyone; these figures were made as large as the plates of the ledges, and the borders, would allow room for:

and the addition round about; which were sloping shelves of brass around the base, 1 Kings 7:29 these were ornamented in like manner.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

According to the proportion of every one - i. e. “as large as the room left for them allowed,” implying that the panels were smaller than those on the sides of the base, and allowed scant room for the representations.