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184 them with brass. And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south. And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. So Huram made an end of doing the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of God: the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the pillars; and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars. He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases; one sea, and the twelve oxen under it. The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all the vessels thereof, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of the of bright brass. In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

only the king's house, but all the royal buildings as well. The Heb. word for "court" in all the above passages is ḥāṣēr, but here the "court (ḥāṣēr) of the priests" is distinguished from a court called the "great court" (Heb. "great `azārāh"). Perhaps the Chronicler wishes to make the same distinction when he says that Solomon's great prayer was offered (vi. 13) in "the court" (Heb. `azārāh). Cp. xx. 5 (note).

10. the sea] See vv. 2—5.&emsp;Its position is stated in accordance with 1 Kin. vii. 39.

11—18 (= 1 Kin. vii. 40—47).&emsp;

This section is taken from the parallel passage of 1 Kings. The variations are few.

11. Huram] For the form of the name see note on ii. 3.

12. two pillars] See iii. 15—17.

the bowls] i.e. the bowl-shaped part of the capital of a pillar.

the chapiters] In modern English "capitals."

14. He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases] A simple correction of the Hebrew text gives, And the ten bases and the ten lavers on the bases, as in 1 Kin. vii. 43.

16. the fleshhooks] Heb. mizlāgōth. In ver. 11 and 1 Kin. vii. 45 (the parallel passages) the basons (Heb. mizrāḳōth).

Huram his father] See note on ii. 13.

17. in the clay ground] G. A. Smith (Historical Geography, p. 488) speaks of traces of old brick-fields found by Sir C. Warren in the Jordan