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the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

1 Koningen 7:39

En hij plaatste vijf onderstellen aan de zuidzijde des tempels en vijf aan de noordzijde des tempels, terwijl hij de zee ter zuidzijde des tempels plaatste naar het zuidoosten.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Art;   Brass;   Carving;   Chapiter;   Hiram;   Master Workman;   Mechanic;   Temple;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Laver;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Laver;   Temple, Solomon's;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jachin (1);   Laver;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Bronze;   Copper;   Hiram;   Laver;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hiram;   Israel;   Temple;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Sea ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Laver;   Pillar;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Laver;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaz;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En hij zette vijf stellingen aan de rechterzijde van het huis, en de andere vijf aan de linkerzijde; en de zee zette hij ter rechterhand vooraan tegen het Zuiden.
Staten Vertaling
En hij zette vijf dier stellingen aan de rechterzijde van het huis, en vijf aan de linkerzijde van het huis; maar de zee zette hij aan de rechterzijde van het huis, oostwaarts tegen het zuiden.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

side: Heb. shoulder

he set: 2 Chronicles 4:6, 2 Chronicles 4:10

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he put five bases on the right side of the house,.... On the south side, which is commonly understood; that is, of the courts of the priests, where they were placed for their use: and five on the left side of the house; on the north, as it must be, if the south is on the right; though as the entrance into the temple was at the east, when a man went in, the north must be on the right, and the south on the left; and this seems to be the position by what follows:

and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, over against the south; and therefore the right side must be the north, which is opposite to the south; the sea seems to have stood northeast, which was for the priests to wash in before they entered on divine service, :- hence it became customary with the Heathens to wash before they performed any religious worship e, particularly the hands and feet f.

e Vid. Virgil. Bucolic. Eclog. 8. "affer aquam", &c. Aeneid. 2. "attrectare nefas", &c. Macrob. Saturnal. l. 3. c. l. f Vid. Sperling de Bapt. Ethnic. p. 88, 89, 101.


 
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