1Ki 7:40 | KingComments | STEP | On the ten stands, ten basins are made. In it, the entrails and legs of the burnt offering are washed ( ). The burnt offering speaks of the Lord Jesus in His complete and total surrender to God on the cross. The washing of the offering, in the spiritual sense of the word, is not done to cleanse the burnt offering, but to prove that the water remains clean after being washed, because the offering is perfectly clean. The basins and the shovels and the bowls, which are also made of bronze, are also mentioned. These are objects more closely related to the altar and the sacrifices ( ). From on there is a repetition of everything Hiram has made. This is not a useless repetition, but a sign of the value these things have to God. They are all made of polished bronze. The best material is used. Hiram makes everything, but he has no other material to use than the material that Solomon has made available to him. This material was shaped in the clay ground by Solomon in the plain of the Jordan. The Jordan is the river of death. All bronze objects for the temple, which in the spiritual application speaks of the righteousness of God, are made by what speaks of what the Lord Jesus did on the cross. On the cross He was “in clay ground”. Out of hard work, out of depths, the righteousness of God has come up and been brought to light.

‏ 1 Kings 7:40

The Bronze Objects

On the ten stands, ten basins are made. In it, the entrails and legs of the burnt offering are washed (Lev 1:9). The burnt offering speaks of the Lord Jesus in His complete and total surrender to God on the cross. The washing of the offering, in the spiritual sense of the word, is not done to cleanse the burnt offering, but to prove that the water remains clean after being washed, because the offering is perfectly clean. The basins and the shovels and the bowls, which are also made of bronze, are also mentioned. These are objects more closely related to the altar and the sacrifices (Exo 38:3).

From 1Kgs 7:40b on there is a repetition of everything Hiram has made. This is not a useless repetition, but a sign of the value these things have to God. They are all made of polished bronze. The best material is used. Hiram makes everything, but he has no other material to use than the material that Solomon has made available to him.

This material was shaped in the clay ground by Solomon in the plain of the Jordan. The Jordan is the river of death. All bronze objects for the temple, which in the spiritual application speaks of the righteousness of God, are made by what speaks of what the Lord Jesus did on the cross. On the cross He was “in clay ground”. Out of hard work, out of depths, the righteousness of God has come up and been brought to light.