--- title: "Bullinger" description: "doors = entrances. sawed with saws. Figure of speech Ployptoton . App-6 . a widow" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/1-kings/7" --- **doors** = entrances. **sawed with saws.** Figure of speech *Ployptoton* . App-6 . **a widow's.** One of nine widows specially mentioned. See note on [Genesis 38:19](../../../kjv/genesis/38/19) . **Naphtali:** by marriage. By birth, of Dan ([2 Chronicles 2:14](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/2/14) ). Dan furnished Aholiab, one of the builders of the Tabernacle ([Exodus 31:6](../../../kjv/exodus/31/6) ). **cunning** = knowing, or skilful. Compare [1 Samuel 16:18](../../../kjv/1-samuel/16/18) . [1 Chronicles 22:15](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/22/15) . **works in brass** = castings in bronze. These were the subjects of later prophecy ([Jeremiah 27:19](../../../kjv/jeremiah/27/19) ), fulfilled in [2 Kings 25:13-17](../../../kjv/2-kings/25/13-17) . **cast.** Hebrew fashioned. **two pillars** = the two pillars: i.e. the two notable pillars, for ornament, not for support, and hollow ([Jeremiah 52:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/52/21) ). **eighteen cubits high apiece.** So [2 Kings 25:17](../../../kjv/2-kings/25/17) and [Jeremiah 52:21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/52/21) . But [2 Chronicles 3:15](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/15) (margin) says thirty-five cubits long: i.e. together, the top of "each" being reckoned separately. Therefore the height here was 17 + cubit being taken up in the joining on of the capital. **apiece.** This is the reckoning here. In [2 Chronicles 3:15](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/15) they are reckoned together. See margin. **chapiters.** Old French *chapiteau,* from Latin. *capitu-lum* = capitals, or crowns. **five cubits.** So [2 Chronicles 3:15](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/15) . But [2 Kings 25:17](../../../kjv/2-kings/25/17) says three cubits, not including the "wreathen" or lattice work, which is described separately, and must have been two cubits. **nets** = frames, or net- or lattice-work. These are *included* in the five cubits here and in [2 Chronicles 3:15](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/3/15) , but not in [2 Kings 25:17](../../../kjv/2-kings/25/17) . **belly** = swell, or protuberance. **in the porch** = for the porch. **Jachin** = He (God) will establish. Referring to His **Boaz** = In Him (God) is strength, People Israel. **molten sea** = brazen laver. "Sea" put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct) for what contained it. **a line of thirty cubits.** Here the proportion of the diameter to the circumference ([1 Kings 1:3](../../../kjv/1-kings/1/3) ) was revealed, while human wisdom was still searching it out. **two thousand.** [2 Chronicles 4:5](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/4/5) says three thousand. But [1 Kings 7:26](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/26) speaks of what it *did* (usually) contain; while [2 Chronicles 4:5](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/4/5) speaks of what it *could* " receive and hold". No bath in use is filled to its full capacity. **baths.** See App-51 . **borders** = panels, or enclosures. **additions** = connections. Probably wreaths. Occurs only here and [1 Kings 7:29](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/29) , 1Ki 7:30 , [1 Kings 7:36](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/36) . **wheels** : showing that these lavers were movable; and indicating that when "that which is perfect should come (viz. the washing with spirit, [Acts 1:5](../../../kjv/acts/1/5) ), the type (water) was to be wheeled away". **plates** = axletrees. **undersetters** = projections, or supports. **at the side of** = opposite. **borders** = panels. Removed by Ahaz ([2 Kings 16:17](../../../kjv/2-kings/16/17) ). Replaced by Hezekiah ([2 Chronicles 29:19](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/29/19) ). Existed at taking of Temple ([Jeremiah 52:17](../../../kjv/jeremiah/52/17) , [Jeremiah 52:20](../../../kjv/jeremiah/52/20) ). **naves** = felloes. **felloes** = spokes. **spokes** = naves. **proportion** : i.e. on a reduced scale, as the plates required. **lavers** = cauldrons (for boiling the peace offerings). Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, and Vulgate, read "pans". Compare [1 Kings 7:45](../../../kjv/1-kings/7/45) and [2 Chronicles 4:11](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/4/11) . **made** = made for. **networks** = lattices. **upon** = upon the face of. Figure of speech *Pleonasm.* App-6 . **found out** = sought out. 4 **vessels** = furniture. **altar** : i.e. the altar of incense. Compare [1 Kings 6:22](../../../kjv/1-kings/6/22) . **candlesticks.** Compare [2 Chronicles 4:20](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/4/20) . Solomon exceeded the pattern in number but followed the design in shape. Size not stated. **pure gold.** In Palestine, gold has the least possible alloy, and is exceedingly malleable. **the most holy place** = the holy of holies. **the things which David his father had dedicated** = the holy things of David. Hebrew. *kodesh* . 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