1 Kings 7:23 “He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measurin…”

1 Kings 7:23

He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

World English Bible

He made the molten sea ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.

American Standard Version

And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

Geneva Bible 1599

And he made a molten sea ten cubites wide from brim to brim, rounde in compasse, and fiue cubites hie, and a line of thirtie cubites did compasse it about.

Darby Translation

And he made the sea, molten, ten cubits from brim to brim, round all about; and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it round about.

Young's Literal Translation

And he maketh the molten sea, ten by the cubit from its edge unto its edge; [it is] round all about, and five by the cubit [is] its height, and a line of thirty by the cubit doth compass it round about;

Bible in Basic English

And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round.

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Cross references

“he made”

Exodus 30:18–21 Exodus 38:8

Exodus 30:18–21 · BSB

“You are to make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it,

Exodus 38:8 · BSB

Next he made the bronze basin and its stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

“a molten sea”

2 Kings 25:13 2 Chronicles 4:2 Jeremiah 52:17 Jeremiah 52:20

2 Kings 25:13 · BSB

Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 4:2 · BSB

He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

Jeremiah 52:17 · BSB

Moreover, the Chaldeans broke up the bronze pillars and stands and the bronze Sea in the house of the LORD, and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:20 · BSB

As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.

Also

1 Chronicles 18:8 2 Kings 16:17

1 Chronicles 18:8 · BSB

And from Tibhath and Cun, cities of Hadadezer, David took a large amount of bronze, with which Solomon made the bronze Sea, the pillars, and various bronze articles.

2 Kings 16:17 · BSB

King Ahaz also cut off the frames of the movable stands and removed the bronze basin from each of them. He took down the Sea from the bronze oxen that were under it and put it on a stone base.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

22And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.

24Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

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