Holy Scripture

1 Kings 7:19

A church father on this verse
“What else can the lilies mean but the glory of the heavenly homeland and the beauty of immortality fragrant with the flowers of paradise? What else can the four cubits mean but the word of the gospel, which promises us entry into eternal happiness and shows us the road by which we may reach it? Therefore, when holy te…”
Bede, 8th c. — Of the Temple of Solomon 2.18.13

Source: Septuagint

Original

19And the work of the wheels was as the work of chariot wheels: their axles, and their felloes, and the rest of their work, were all molten.

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17And there were four brazen wheels to one base; and there were brazen bases, and their four sides answering to them, side pieces under the bases.

18And there were axles in the wheels under the base. And the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half.

— 1 Kings 7:19 —

20The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders were formed of the base.

21And on the top of the base half a cubit was the size of it, there was a circle on the top of the base, and there was the top of its spaces and its borders: and it was open at the top of its spaces.

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