1 Raja-raja 7:39

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru

Lima kereta penopang ditaruhnya pada sisi kanan rumah itu dan lima pada sisi kirinya; tetapi "laut" itu ditaruhnya pada sisi kanan rumah itu, arah tenggara.

Parallel Translations

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari
Lima kereta penopang ditaruhnya pada sisi kanan rumah itu dan lima pada sisi kirinya; tetapi "laut" itu ditaruhnya pada sisi kanan rumah itu, arah tenggara.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka ditaruhnya lima pelapik pada sebelah kanan dan lima pelapik pada sebelah kiri rumah itu, tetapi kolam itu ditaruhnya pada sebelah kanan rumah arah ke timur semata selatan.

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.