1 Kings 4:32
composed <01696> [he spake.]
songs <07892> [songs.]
1 Kings 7:26
four fingers <02947> [an hand breadth.]
blossom <06525> [with flowers.]
hold <03557> [it contained.]
This immense laver, called a sea from it magnitude, held, at a moderate computation, 16,000 gallons. Besides this great brazen laver, there were in the temple ten lavers of brass of a less size, which moved on wheels, and were ornamented with the figures of various animals, having, probably, always some relation to the cherubim. These lavers were to hold water for the use of the priests in their sacred office, particularly to wash the victims that were to be offered as a burnt offering, as we learn from 2 Ch 4:6; but the brazen sea was for the priests to wash in. The knops are supposed to have been in the form of an ox's head, (2 Ch 4:3;) and some think the water flowed out at their mouths.
12,000 gallons <0505> [two thousand.]
1 Kings 5:14
month ........ month ...... months <02320> [a month.]
Adoniram <0141> [Adoniram.]
1 Kings 5:16
3,300 <07969 0505> [three thousand.]
In the parallel passage of Chronicles, it is "three thousand six hundred," which is also the reading of the Septuagint here.
1 Kings 19:18
left <07604> [Yet I have left. or, Yet I will leave.]
knees <01290> [the knees.]
<06310> [every mouth.]
Idolaters often kissed their hand in honour of their idols; and hence the origin of adoration from {ad,} to and {os, oris,} the mouth. Cicero mentions a statue of Hercules, the chin and lips of which were considerably worn by the kissing of his worshippers.
1 Kings 20:15
232 <03967 08147> [two hundred.]
7,000 <0505 07651> [seven thousand.]
