1 Kings 7:40

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

Hiram: Heb. Hirom, 1 Kings 7:13

the lavers: 1 Kings 7:28, 2 Kings 25:14, 2 Kings 25:15, 2 Chronicles 4:8, 2 Chronicles 4:11-16, Jeremiah 52:18, Jeremiah 52:19

the shovels: 1 Kings 7:45

the basins: Exodus 24:6

So Hiram: Exodus 39:32-43

Reciprocal: Exodus 27:3 - his shovels 2 Chronicles 4:6 - ten lavers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins,.... The lavers are not the ten before mentioned, of the make of which an account is before given; but these, according to Jarchi and Ben Gersom, are the same with the pots, 1 Kings 7:45 and so they are called in 2 Chronicles 4:11 the use of which, as they say, was to put the ashes of the altar into; as the "shovels", next mentioned, were a sort of besoms to sweep them off, and the "basins" were to receive the blood of the sacrifices, and sprinkle it; no mention is here made of the altar of brass he made, but is in 2 Chronicles 4:11, nor of the fleshhooks to take the flesh out of the pots, as in 2 Chronicles 4:16,

so Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made King Solomon for the house of the Lord; what he undertook, and was employed in, he finished, which were all works of brass; of which a recapitulation is made in the following verses to the end of the forty fifth, where they are said to be made of "bright brass", free of all dross and rust; "good", as the Targum, even the best brass they were made of; the brass David took from Hadarezer, 1 Chronicles 18:8 which Josephus g too much magnifies, when he says it was better than gold.

g Antiqu. l. 7. c. 5. sect. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lavers - Rather, according to the true reading, “pots.” (Compare 1 Kings 7:45; 2 Chronicles 4:16.) The “pots” were the caldrons in which it was usual to boil the peace-offerings. See 1 Samuel 2:13-14,

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 7:40. So Hiram made an end — It is truly surprising, that in so short a time one artist could design and execute works of such magnitude, taste, and variety, however numerous his assistants might be. The mere building of the house was a matter of little difficulty in comparison of these internal works.