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The Sea and the Oxen

23 And he made athe Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.  
24 Below its brim were ornamental buds encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, aall the way around the Sea. The ornamental buds were cast in two rows when it was cast.  
25 It stood on atwelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward.  
26 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained1 two thousand baths.  

The Carts and the Lavers

27 He also made ten1 carts of bronze; four cubits was the length of each cart, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.  
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1 Kings 7:25

Josephus charged Solomon with a breach of the Commandment Exodus 20:4-5, on account of the oxen here and the lions for his throne. The charge expresses the prohibition which some Jews have conceived the Commandment to urge against the arts of sculpture and painting.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 7:25:

Exodus 30:17-21

 

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