1 Kings 7:27
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New International Version (©2011)
He also made ten movable stands of bronze; each was four cubits long, four wide and three high.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Huram also made ten bronze water carts, each 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4-1/2 feet tall.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He also made the ten stands of bronze. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then he made 10 bronze water carts. Each water cart was six feet long, six feet wide, and 4 1/2 feet high.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Hiram also made ten bronze water carts. Each one was four cubits wide, four cubits long, and three cubits high.

NET Bible (©2006)
He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet long, six feet wide, and four-and-a-half feet high.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He made ten bronze stands. Each stand was 6 feet square and 41/2 feet high.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he made ten stands of bronze; four cubits was the length of one stand, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

American King James Version
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

American Standard Version
And he made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he made ten bases of brass, every base was four cubits in length, and four cubits in breadth, and three cubits high.

Darby Bible Translation
And he made ten bases of brass: four cubits was the length of one base, and the breadth four cubits, and the height three cubits.

English Revised Version
And he made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and three cubits the hight of it.

World English Bible
He made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height.

Young's Literal Translation
And he maketh the ten bases of brass; four by the cubit is the length of the one base, and four by the cubit its breadth, and three by the cubit its height.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:13-47 The two brazen pillars in the porch of the temple, some think, were to teach those that came to worship, to depend upon God only, for strength and establishment in all their religious exercises. Jachin, God will fix this roving mind. It is good that the heart be established with grace. Boaz, In him is our strength, who works in us both to will and to do. Spiritual strength and stability are found at the door of God's temple, where we must wait for the gifts of grace, in use of the means of grace. Spiritual priests and spiritual sacrifices must be washed in the laver of Christ's blood, and of regeneration. We must wash often, for we daily contract pollution. There are full means provided for our cleansing; so that if we have our lot for ever among the unclean it will be our own fault. Let us bless God for the fountain opened by the sacrifice of Christ for sin and for uncleanness.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 27. - And he made ten bases [or stands, מְכונות, from כּוּן, erectus stetit. The description of both the bases and the layers which they supported (vers. 27-39) is extremely obscure. We know, however, that the bases (as the name implies) were simply stands or pediments for the lavers] of brass; four cubits was the length of one base and four cubits the breadth thereof; and three cubits the height of it [they were rectangular, or box shaped, six feet square and four and a half feet high.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he made ten bases of brass,.... Seats, stands, or settles for the ten lavers after mentioned:

four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof; as broad as it was long, and so a square, that the laver might stand firm upon it:

and three cubits the height of it; from the ground plates to the surface, that the priests might be able to reach the layers, and wash their sacrifices.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

27-39. he made ten bases of brass—These were trucks or four-wheeled carriages, for the support and conveyance of the lavers. The description of their structure shows that they were elegantly fitted up and skilfully adapted to their purpose. They stood, not on the axles, but on four rests attached to the axles, so that the figured sides were considerably raised above the wheels. They were all exactly alike in form and size. The lavers which were borne upon them were vessels capable each of holding three hundred gallons of water, upwards of a ton weight. The whole, when full of water, would be no less than two tons [Napier].

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The Ten Bases
27And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. 28And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges: 29And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim: and on the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. …

1 Kings 7:26 It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.
1 Kings 7:28 This is how the stands were made: They had side panels attached to uprights.
1 Kings 7:38 He then made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin to go on each of the ten stands.
2 Kings 16:17 King Ahaz cut off the side panels and removed the basins from the movable stands. He removed the Sea from the bronze bulls that supported it and set it on a stone base.
2 Kings 25:13 The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried the bronze to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 4:14 the stands with their basins;
Jeremiah 52:17 The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the LORD and they carried all the bronze to Babylon.