1 Kings 7:27

In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — The biblical narrator records Solomon’s artisans fabricating temple furnishings, moving from the casting of the bronze Sea to the production of its supporting structures.

The words — נְחֹשֶׁת (ne.choshet) means bronze, and מְכוֹנֹת (mechonot) denotes stands or movable supports.

The thread — These bronze stands are listed in 2 Chronicles 4:14 as part of the temple’s equipment, and appear in 2 Kings 25:13 and Jeremiah 52:17 when the Chaldeans break them up during the siege.

Why it lands — The text supplies exact dimensions and materials to fix the artifact’s physical reality, requiring the reader to track the object’s creation, its liturgical function, and its subsequent destruction without embellishment.

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The Hebrew words

וַיַּ֧עַשׂva/i.Ya.'asand/ he made אֶת־'et-<obj.>הַמְּכֹנ֛וֹתha./me.kho.Notthe/ stands עֶ֖שֶׂר'E.serten נְחֹ֑שֶׁתne.Cho.shetbronze אַרְבַּ֣ע'ar.Ba'[was] four בָּאַמָּ֗הba./'a.Mahby the/ cubit אֹ֚רֶךְ'O.rekh[the] length of הַמְּכוֹנָ֣הha./me.kho.Nahthe/ stand הָֽאֶחָ֔תha./'e.Chat<the>/ one וְאַרְבַּ֤עve./'ar.Ba'and/ [was] four בָּֽאַמָּה֙ba./'a.Mahby the/ cubit רָחְבָּ֔הּra.che.Ba/hbreadth/ its וְשָׁלֹ֥שׁve./sha.Loshand/ [was] three בָּאַמָּ֖הba./'a.Mahby the/ cubit קוֹמָתָֽהּ׃ko.ma.Ta/hheight/ its

King James Version

And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

Cross-references

2 Chronicles 4:14 the stands; the basins on the stands;
2 Kings 25:13 Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
Jeremiah 52:17 Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.
1 Kings 7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
2 Kings 25:16 As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
Jeremiah 52:20 As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.