Exo 30:17-21, 28, 38:8, 40:11-12, 2Ch 4:6-22, Zec 13:1, Heb 9:10 | TSK

looking glasses. or, brazen glasses.The word {maroth,} from {raah,} to see, denotes reflectors, or mirrors, of any kind. That these could not have been looking glasses, as in our translation, is sufficiently evident, not only from the glass not being then in use, but also from the impossibility of making the brazen laver of such materials. The first mirrors known among men, were the clear fountain and unruffled lake. The first artificial ones were made of polished brass, afterwards of steel, and when luxury increased, of silver; but at a very early period, they were made of a mixed metal, particularly of tin and copper, the best of which, as Pliny informs us, were formerly manufactured at Brundusium. When the Egyptians went to their temples, according to St. Cyril, they always carried their mirrors with them. The Israelitish women probably did the same; and Dr. Shaw says, that looking-glasses are still part of the dress of Moorish women, who carry them constantly hung at their breasts.

assembling. Heb. assembling by troops.It is supposed that these women kept watch during the night. Among the ancients, women were generally employed as door-keepers. See 1 Sa 2:22.

Pr 8:34; Mt 26:69; Lu 2:37; Joh 18:16; 1Ti 5:5

Exodus 40:11-12

29:1-35; Le 8:1-13; 9:1-24; Isa 11:1-5; 61:1-3; Mt 3:16; Lu 1:35

Joh 3:34; Ro 8:3; Ga 4:4

2 Chronicles 4:6-22

ten lavers.

Ex 30:18-21; 1Ki 7:38,40; Ps 51:2; 1Co 6:11; 1Jo 1:7

such things as they offered for the burnt offering. Heb. thework of burnt offering.

Le 1:9,13; Eze 40:38

but the sea.

2; Ex 29:4; Heb 9:14,23; Re 1:5,6; 7:14

ten candlesticks.

1Ki 7:49; 1Ch 28:15; Zec 4:2,3,11-14; Mt 5:14-16; Joh 8:12

Re 1:20

according to.

Ex 25:31-40; 1Ch 28:12,19; Heb 8:5

ten tables.

Ex 25:23-30; 37:10-16; 1Ki 7:48; Isa 25:6; Eze 44:16; Mal 1:12

1Co 10:21

basons. or, bowls.

Jer 52:18,19; Zec 14:20

the court.

1Ki 6:36; 7:12

1Ki 7:39

the pots.

1Ki 7:40,45

basons. or, bowls. finished. Heb. finished to make.

To wit.

3:15-17

the pommels.

1Ki 7:41

four hundred.

Ex 28:33,34; 1Ki 7:20,42; So 4:13; Jer 52:23

pillars. Heb. face of the pillars.

bases.

1Ki 7:27-43

lavers. or, caldrons.

2-5

pots also.

11; Ex 27:3; 38:3; Zec 14:20,21

flesh-hooks.

1Sa 2:13,14; 1Ch 28:17

Huram.

1Ki 7:13,14,45

Hiram. his father.

2:13

bright. Heb. made bright, or scoured.

clay ground. Heb. thicknesses of the ground. Zeredathah.

1Ki 7:46

Zarthan.

the weight.

1Ki 7:47; 1Ch 22:3,14; Jer 52:20

all the vessels.

36:10,18; 1Ki 7:48-50; 2Ki 24:13; 25:13-15; Ezr 1:7-11; Jer 28:3

Jer 52:18,19; Da 5:2,3,23

the golden.

26:16-18; Ex 30:1-10; 37:25-29; Re 8:3; 9:13

the tables.

Ex 25:23-30; Le 24:5-8; 1Ch 28:16

the candlesticks.

7; Ex 25:31-37

burn after.

Ex 27:20,21

the oracle.

1Ki 6:5,16,17; 8:6; Ps 28:2

the flowers.Probably each branch of the chandelier was made like a plant in flower; and the opening of the flower was either the lamp, or served to support it.

5; Ex 25:31-40; 37:20; 1Ki 6:18,29,35

perfect gold. Heb. perfections of gold.That is, the purest and best gold.

snuffers.

Ex 37:23; 1Ki 7:50; 2Ki 12:13; 25:14; Jer 52:18

basons. or, bowls. the entry.Capellus and others suppose we should read, agreeably to 1 Ki 7:50, "The hinges also of the doors of the inner house," etc.; the word {pothoth,} "hinges," being mistaken for {paithach,} "an entry" or "door-way."

1Ki 6:31,32