translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “twenty cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the length would have been 30 feet (9 m).


text: Heb “twenty cubits.”


text: Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).


text: Heb “He made the sea, cast.” sn The large bronze basin known as “The Sea” was mounted on twelve bronze bulls and contained water for the priests to bathe themselves (see v. 6 ; cf. Exod 30:17-21 ).


text: Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the diameter would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).


text: Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 7.5 feet (2.25 m).


text: Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”


text: Heb “ten every cubit.”


text: Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”


text: Heb “3,000 baths” (note that the capacity is given in 1 Kings 7:26 as “2,000 baths”). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so 3,000 baths was a quantity of about 18,000 gallons (66,000 liters).


text: Heb “and the doors for the enclosure.”


text: Heb “Huram,” but here this refers to Huram Abi ( 2 Chr 2:13 ). The complete name has been used in the translation to avoid possible confusion with King Huram of Tyre.


text: Heb “Huram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of God.”


text: The words “he made” are added for stylistic reasons.


label: NET textual note

text: The Hebrew text has עָשָׂה (’ asah , “he made”), which is probably a corruption of עֶשֶׂר (’ eser , “ten”; see 1 Kgs 7:43 ).


text: The Hebrew text has עָשָׂה (’ asah , “he made”), which is probably a corruption of עֲשָׂרָה (’ asarah , “ten”; see 1 Kgs 7:43 ).


text: Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45 .


text: Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the Lord .”


text: Or perhaps, “molds.”


text: Heb “Solomon made all these items in great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”


text: Heb “the bread of the face/presence.” sn This bread offered to God was viewed as a perpetual offering to God. See Lev 24:5-9 .