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Jeremia 52:20

Die zwei Säulen, das Meer, die Zwölf ehernen Rinder darunter und die Gestühle, welche der König Salomo hatte lassen machen zum Hause des HERRN, alles dieses Gerätes aus Erz war unermeßlich viel.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bullock;   Jerusalem;   Laver;   Month;   Nebuzaradan (Nebuzar-Adan);   Pillar;   Solomon;   Temple;   Zedekiah;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Nebuzaradan;   Zedekiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Boaz;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Exile;   Jeremiah;   Molten Sea;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Lance, Lancet;   Temple;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Nebuzaradan ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaz;   Base;   Sea, the Molten or Brazen;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Calf-Worship;   Numbers and Numerals;   Ox;  

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Die zwei Säulen, das eine Meer und die zwölf ehernen Rinder darunter, die Gestelle, welche der König Salomo für das Haus des Herrn hatte machen lassen, - das Erz von allen diesen Geräten war nicht zu wägen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

two: Jeremiah 52:17

the brass: Heb. their brass

without: 1 Kings 7:47, 2 Kings 25:16, 1 Chronicles 22:14, 2 Chronicles 4:18

Reciprocal: Exodus 27:3 - firepans 1 Kings 7:23 - a molten sea 1 Kings 7:25 - General 1 Kings 7:27 - ten bases 2 Kings 16:17 - sea 1 Chronicles 22:3 - without weight 2 Chronicles 3:15 - two pillars

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls,.... The two pillars of Jachin and Boaz before mentioned, and the molten or brasen sea, with the twelve bulls or oxen the sea stood upon, 1 Kings 7:25;

that [were] under the bases; or "by the bases", as Jarchi; or rather, "that were instead of bases" d; for the twelve oxen were the bases on which the molten sea stood:

which King Solomon had made in the house of the Lord; this is mentioned to show that these were the selfsame pillars, sea, and oxen, and other vessels, that Solomon made, that were now carried away; for though Ahaz took down the sea from off the brasen oxen, and put it on a pavement of stones, yet it seems not to have been destroyed; and might be restored to its proper place by Hezekiah, or some other prince;

the brass of all these vessels was without weight; there was no weight sufficient to weigh them; the weight of them could not very well be told; they were so heavy, that in Solomon's time the weight of them was not taken, when they were placed in the temple, so neither when they were taken away, 1 Kings 7:47.

d אשר תחת המכנות "qui erant in loco basium", Piscator,

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

twelve brasen bulls that were under - Omitted in 2 Kings and in Jeremiah 27:19. Probably rightly, for what is said here of their being under the bases is a mistake. The bases were under the ten lavers. The Septuagint makes sense by translating it: “the twelve brasen bulls under the sea.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 52:20. Jeremiah 52:18.


 
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