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2 Chronicles 4:15

the big bronze basin called "The Sea" with its twelve bulls underneath,

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;
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

11 Huram Abi made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God's temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 12 He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, 13 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar), 14 the ten movable stands with their ten basins, 15 the big bronze basin called "The Sea" with its twelve bulls underneath, 16 and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord 's temple were made from polished bronze. 17 The king had them cast in earth foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. 18 Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze. 19 Solomon also made these items for God's temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept, 20 the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary,

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
If Cain is to be avenged seven times as much, then Lamech seventy-seven times!"
Leviticus 26:18
"‘If, in spite of all these things, you do not obey me, I will discipline you seven times more on account of your sins.
Leviticus 26:21
"‘If you walk in hostility against me and are not willing to obey me, I will increase your affliction seven times according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:24
I myself will also walk in hostility against you and strike you seven times on account of your sins.
Leviticus 26:28
I will walk in hostile rage against you and I myself will also discipline you seven times on account of your sins.
1 Kings 16:7
The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord . His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam's dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam's.
Psalms 59:11
Do not strike them dead suddenly, because then my people might forget the lesson. Use your power to make them homeless vagabonds and then bring them down, O Lord who shields us!
Psalms 79:12
Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!
Proverbs 6:31
Yet if he is caught he must repay seven times over, he might even have to give all the wealth of his house.
Ezekiel 9:4
The Lord said to him, "Go through the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of the people who moan and groan over all the abominations practiced in it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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