6He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
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Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. …
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.
And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)David often speaks with much affection both of the house of the Lord and of the courts of our God . Both without doors and within there was that which typified the grace of the gospel and shadowed out good things to come , of which the substance is Christ. I. There were those things in the open court, in the view of all the people, which were very significant. 1. There was the brazen altar , 2 Chr…
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