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Literal Standard Version

2 Chronicles 4:15

the one sea, and the twelve oxen under it,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hiram;   Master Workman;   Mechanic;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The one basin and the twelve oxen underneath it,
Hebrew Names Version
one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
King James Version
One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
English Standard Version
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.
New Century Version
the large bowl with twelve bulls under it;
New English Translation
the big bronze basin called "The Sea" with its twelve bulls underneath,
Amplified Bible
and the one Sea with the twelve oxen under it.
New American Standard Bible
and the one Sea with the twelve oxen under it.
World English Bible
one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And a Sea, and twelue bulles vnder it:
Legacy Standard Bible
and the one sea with the twelve oxen under it.
Berean Standard Bible
the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;
Contemporary English Version
the large bowl and the twelve bulls that held it up,
Complete Jewish Bible
the one Sea, the twelve oxen under it,
Darby Translation
one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
George Lamsa Translation
One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
Lexham English Bible
and the one sea and the twelve oxen underneath it.
Literal Translation
the one sea, and twelve oxen under it,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and a lauer, and twolue bullockes there vnder.
American Standard Version
one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
Bible in Basic English
The great water-vessel with the twelve oxen under it.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The great lauatorie, and twelue oxen vnder it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
King James Version (1611)
One Sea, & twelue oxen vnder it.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the one sea, and the twelve calves under it;
English Revised Version
one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he made o see, and twelue oxis vndur the see,
Update Bible Version
one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
Webster's Bible Translation
One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
New King James Version
one Sea and twelve oxen under it;
New Living Translation
the Sea and the twelve oxen under it;
New Life Bible
He made the one pool with the twelve oxen under it.
New Revised Standard
the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
the one sea, - and the twelve oxen under it;
Douay-Rheims Bible
One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
Revised Standard Version
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.
Young's Literal Translation
the one sea, and the twelve oxen under it,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the one sea with the twelve oxen under it.

Contextual Overview

11And Huram makes the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls, and Huram finishes to make the work that he made for King Solomon in the house of God; 12two pillars, and the bowls, and the crowns on the heads of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the crowns that [are] on the heads of the pillars; 13and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for the one network, to cover the two bowls of the crowns that [are] on the front of the pillars. 14And he has made the bases; and he has made the lavers on the bases; 15the one sea, and the twelve oxen under it,16and the pots, and the shovels, and the forks, and all their vessels, his father Huram has made for King Solomon, for the house of YHWH, of bronze purified. 17The king has cast them in the circuit of the Jordan, in the thick soil of the ground, between Succoth and Zeredathah. 18And Solomon makes all these vessels in great abundance, that the weight of the bronze has not been searched out. 19And Solomon makes all the vessels that [are for] the house of God, and the altar of gold, and the tables, and on them [is] Bread of the Presentation; 20and the lampstands, and their lamps, for their burning according to the ordinance, before the oracle, of gold refined;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Chronicles 4:2-5

Reciprocal: Exodus 30:18 - a laver 2 Kings 16:17 - sea Jeremiah 52:17 - the bases

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
For sevenfold is required for Cain, || And for Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
Leviticus 26:18
And if up to these you [still] do not listen to Me—then I have added to discipline you sevenfold for your sins;
Leviticus 26:21
And if you walk with Me [in] opposition, and are not willing to listen to Me, then I have added to you a plague sevenfold, according to your sins,
Leviticus 26:24
then I have walked—I also—with you in opposition, and have struck you, even I, sevenfold for your sins;
Leviticus 26:28
then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have disciplined you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.
1 Kings 16:7
And also by the hand of Jehu son of Hanani the prophet a word of YHWH has been concerning Baasha, and concerning his house, and concerning all the evil that he did in the eyes of YHWH to provoke Him to anger with the work of his hands, to be like the house of Jeroboam, and concerning that for which he struck him.
Psalms 59:11
Do not slay them, lest my people forget, || Shake them by Your strength, || And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Psalms 79:12
And return to our neighbors, || Sevenfold to their bosom, their reproach, || With which they reproached You, O Lord.
Proverbs 6:31
And being found he repays sevenfold, || He gives all the substance of his house.
Ezekiel 9:4
And He calls to the man who is clothed with linen, who has the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and YHWH says to him, "Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and you have made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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