1 Kings 7:23 Cross References - NSB

²³ Hiram made a round tank of copper, seven and one half feet deep, fifteen feet in diameter, and forty-five feet in circumference.

¹⁸ »Make a copper basin with a bronze stand for washing. Put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and fill it with water. ¹⁹ »Aaron and his sons will use it for washing their hands and feet. ²⁰ »Before they go into the tent of meeting, they must wash so that they will not die. Before they come near the altar to serve as priests and burn an offering by fire to Jehovah. ²¹ »They must wash their hands and feet, so that they will not die. This is a long lasting rule that they and their descendants are to observe.«

⁸ He made the laver (basin) of copper with its base of copper, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

¹⁷ King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the copper bulls which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.

¹³ The copper pillars in the Temple of Jehovah, and the wheeled bases, and the great copper water-vessel in the Temple of Jehovah were broken up by the Chaldaeans. They took the copper to Babylon.

² He also made a round tank (molten sea) of copper. It was seven and one half feet deep, fifteen feet in diameter, and forty-five feet in circumference.

⁸ David also took a large quantity of bronze from Tibhath and Cun, Hadadezer’s cities. Later Solomon used it to make the pool, pillars, and utensils for the temple.

¹⁷ The Babylonians broke apart the copper pillars of Jehovah’s Temple, the stands, and the copper pool in Jehovah’s Temple. They shipped all the copper to Babylon.

²⁰ The copper from the two pillars, the pool, and the twelve copper bulls under the stands that King Solomon had made for Jehovah’s Temple could not be weighed.