¹ Hebrew _upon the face of the pillars_. =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.” ¹⁴He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases; ¹⁵one sea, and the twelve oxen under it. =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 Kings vii. 43. ¹⁶The 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 LORD of bright brass. =16.= _the fleshhooks_] Hebrew _mizlāgōth_. In verse 11 and 1 Kings vii. 45 (the parallel passages) _the basons_ (Hebrew _mizrāḳōth_). _Huram his father_] See note on ii. 13. ¹⁷In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah. =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 valley. It is possible, however, that the Hebrew is defective and that the true reading is =at the ford of Adamah=, but on the whole it is best to keep the reading in the text (see Barnes on 1 Kings vii. 46). _Succoth_] Succoth is probably _Tell Deir ‘Alla_, east of Jordan, about one mile north of the Jabbok. _Zeredah_] (1 Kings xi. 26); but in 1 Kings vii. 46 (Revised Version) _Zarethan_ (compare Joshua iii. 6, Revised Version). Its site is not known, beyond the obvious inference that it was near the Jordan and not very far from Succoth. Joshua iii. 16 states that it was near _Adam_ (the modern _el Damieh_). ¹⁸Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out¹. ¹ Or, _was not searched out_. =18.= _Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance_] In 1 Kings vii. 47, _And Solomon left all the vessels_ unweighed, _because they were exceeding many_. =19‒V. 1= (= 1 Kings vii. 48‒51). THE VESSELS OF GOLD. THE COMPLETION OF THE WORK. ¹⁹And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon was the shewbread; =19.= _the golden altar_] This was the altar of incense (compare 1 Maccabees i. 21 ff.), which according to Exodus xxx. 1 ff. stood within the tabernacle and was made of acacia wood (compare however, Exodus xxxix. 38). Both passages in Exodus are of late, post-exilic, date, and as no mention of this altar is made by Ezekiel, it was probably a feature not of the first but of the second Temple. _the tables whereon was the shewbread_] In 1 Kings vii. 48 (parallel passage), _the table_ (singular); a reading probably to be accepted here also; compare note on verse 8.