Bible Strands
1 Kings 7:45
and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The biblical narrator catalogs the finished temple furnishings, specifying that King Solomon directed Huram to craft these items for the house of the LORD.
The words — הַ/מִּזְרָק֗וֹת (ha./miz.ra.Kot) translates literally as "the sprinkling bowls," designating vessels for ritual liquid handling.
The thread — Exodus 27:3 and Exodus 38:3 prescribe these same bronze utensils for the tabernacle, and 2 Chronicles 4:16 parallels the account by listing pots, shovels, and meat forks alongside "all the other articles" made by Huram-abi.
Why it lands — The text records the material composition and workshop origin of sacred vessels, requiring the reader to trace the continuity of liturgical equipment from the wilderness sanctuary to Solomon's temple.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of bright brass.
Cross-references
- Exodus 27:3 Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
- Exodus 38:3 He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.
- 2 Chronicles 4:16 and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.
- Leviticus 8:31 And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’
- 1 Samuel 2:13 or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
- Ezekiel 46:20 and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”
- Zechariah 14:21 Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.