2 Chronicles 4:10
◄  2 Chronicles 4:10  ►
New International Version (©2011)
He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He set the sea on the right side of the house toward the southeast.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He put the reservoir on the right side, toward the southeast.

International Standard Version (©2012)
He set the sea at the southeast corner of the Temple.

NET Bible (©2006)
He put "The Sea" on the south side, in the southeast corner.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He set the pool on the south side in the southeast [corner].

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, toward the south.

American King James Version
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

American Standard Version
And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward the south.

Darby Bible Translation
And he set the sea on the right side eastward, over against the south.

English Revised Version
And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

World English Bible
He set the sea on the right side [of the house] eastward, toward the south.

Young's Literal Translation
And the sea he hath placed on the right shoulder eastward, over-against the south.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-22 The furniture of the temple. - Here is a further account of the furniture of God's house. 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. There was the brazen altar. The making of this was not mentioned in the book of Kings. On this all the sacrifices were offered, and it sanctified the gift. The people who worshipped in the courts might see the sacrifices burned. They might thus be led to consider the great Sacrifice, to be offered in the fulness of time, to take away sin, and put an end to death, which the blood of bulls and goats could not possibly do. And, with the smoke of the sacrifices, their hearts might ascend to heaven, in holy desires towards God and his favour. In all our devotions we must keep the eye of faith fixed upon Christ. The furniture of the temple, compared with that of the tabernacle, showed that God's church would be enlarged, and his worshippers multiplied. Blessed be God, there is enough in Christ for all.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - The right side of the east end, over against the south (so also 1 Kings 7:39; comp. Exodus 30:18). The sea found its position, therefore, in the place of the tabernacle laver of old, between altar of brass and porch. It must be remembered that the entrance was east, but it was counted to a person standing with the back to the tabernacle or temple, as though he were, in fact, going out, not entering in, the sacred enclosure; therefore on the right side will be southward, as written in this verse.

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The Courts
9Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. 10And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south. 11And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;

Genesis 24:15 Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham's brother Nahor.
1 Kings 7:39 He placed five of the stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north. He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.