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The supplementary character of Chronicles is here once more apparent. The author of Kings had omitted to record the dimensions of the brass altar. It stood in the great court [2 Chronicles 6:12-13](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/6/12-13).

For “oxen” we find in [1 Kings 7:24](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/24), “knops” or “gourds.” An early copyist, not comprehending the comparatively rare word here used for “gourd,” and expecting to hear of oxen, as soon as the molten sea was mentioned, changed the reading.

**Three thousand baths -**See [1 Kings 7:23](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/23) note. It is quite possible that either here or in Kings the text may have been accidentally corrupted.

**According to their form -**Rather, “after their manner” (compare [2 Chronicles 4:20](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/4/20)). There is no allusion to the shape of the candlesticks, which were made, no doubt, after the pattern of the original candlestick of Moses.

The number of the tables (see [2 Chronicles 4:19](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/4/19)) and of the basins, is additional to the information contained in Kings.

**Huram his father -**Or, “Huram his master-workman” ([2 Chronicles 2:13](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/2/13) note).

**Zeredathah -**Or, Zarthan (marginal reference). The writer of Chronicles probably uses the name which the place bore in his own day.

**The tables -**A single table only is mentioned in [1 Kings 7:48](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/48); [2 Chronicles 29:18](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/29/18). It is supposed that Solomon made ten similar tables, any one of which might be used for the showbread; but that the bread was never placed on more than one table at a time.

**The entry of the house -**The text is, by some, corrected by [1 Kings 7:50](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/50), “the hinges” of the doors of the house, etc.

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