2nd Chronicles Chapter 4 verse 14 Holy Bible
He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases;
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And he made the ten bases and the ten washing-vessels which were on the bases;
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And he made the bases, and he made the lavers on the bases;
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He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
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He made also bases, and lavers he made upon the bases;
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He made also the bases, and the basins made he on the bases;
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And the bases he hath made; and the lavers he hath made on the bases;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - Bases. The first mention of these in Chronicles, on which so much is said in the parallel (1 Kings 7:27-39). The Hebrew word is מְכונָה, occurring eighteen times in Kings, twice in Chronicles, once in Ezra, and three times in Jeremiah. These bases were, as may be learnt more fully in the parallel, pedestals of brass four cubits square by three and a half high, supported by wheels a cubit and a half in diameter. The pedestals were richly decorated with mouldings, and with the similitudes of lions, oxen, and cherubim, and with other subordinate ornamental work, and were designed to bear the layers, the use of which is given in ver. 6. Vers. 6-16 in our chapter strongly suggest, in their repetitiousness, the writer's resort to different sources and authorities for his matter.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) He made also bases.--And the bases he made; and the lavers he made upon the bases. This repetition of the verb is suspicious; and the parallel text shows the right reading to be and the bases ten (in number), and the lavers ten upon the bases. "Ten" in Hebrew writing closely resembles "he made." The LXX. renders, "And the bases he made ten, and the lavers he made upon the bases;" which shows that the corruption of the text is ancient.
