I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 352
The History of the People of Israel
of forty baths capacity.ea.ch lever. Each lever was four cubits; each laver was upon a single base of the ten bases. The bases were- placed five on the right side of the house, and Eve on its left. But the taulosea was placed- at the right side of the house towards the east, fronting south. Hiram also made the sprinklers,
and the shovels, and the basons. Hiram thus completed all the furni- ture which King Solomon provided for the House of the Ev2R·Lxv1NG. The two columns and the wreathed
crowns on the tops, of the columns, and the two networks to cover the two wreaths of the crowns which were on the tops of the columns, with the four hundred pornegranates for the two networlcs,——two rows of pomegranates for each duet, to cover the two wreaths of the crowns which were on the tops of the columns. And the ten bases, and the ten lavers upon the bases. And the one tank, and the twelve bullocks under the tank. l And the boilers, and the forks, and the basons. The whole of the instruments of the Hall, that Hiram made for King Solomon for the House of the EvnR—1.1v1Nc; were
46 of polished brass, and cast in the neighbourhood of the jordan for the king, in the clay land between Sukoth
47 and Tzarthan. Solomon also made a very large amount of furniture, not calculating the value of the weight of the brass. 48 Solomon besides made l all the 49 instruments oft the House of the EVER-LIV1NG,th6 altar of gold, and the table of gold upon which was the Showbread. And the five lamps on the right and the five on the left hand oppositethe Recess were pure gold, with their plates and reflectors, and snuffers of pure gold. And the fans, and psalteries, and pans; and the spoons, and tongs of refined gold. House, over the entrance of the Holy of Holies, with the doors of the House of the temple, of gold. Thus was completed all the furni· 5x ture that King Solomon made for the House of the Ev1¤:R·L1vzNG, and Solomon brought the consecrated silver and gold of his father David, and the furniture he gave, to the House of the Even-x.1v1No. (ac. 1004.) Gmtsrrrniiun of the @2:::;:12. Solomon then assembled the 8 judges of Israel, and all the Heads of the Tribes. with the.Chiefs of the families of the children of Israel, to meet King Solomon in jerusalem, to carry up the Ark of the Covenant of the Evza·L1vmo from the City of David—that is Mount Zion. When King Solomon addressed all the Chiefs of Israel, in the month of Aithanirn, at the festival of the seventh month. All the judges of Israel c0nse·
quently came, and the priests took up the Ark, and carried the Ark of the Evnn·L1vn~zo to the Hall of Assembly, with all the sacred furnis ture that was for the Hall, going up with the Priests and Levites, and King Solomon, and all the assembled Parliament of Israel with them, before the Ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen without number, for they did not count how many. Then the Priests brought the Ark
of the Covenant of the Evan-Lrvmo to its place in the Recess of the House, to the Holy of Holies, under the canopy of the Kerubim, for the Kerubs spread their wings over the surface of the Ark, and the Kerubs covered the Ark above., But they 8 drew the staves out, so- that they could see the heads of the staves in the Sanctuary from the Commandary Recess, but could not see them from the Court. And they are there until to—dav.1 There was nothing in the Ark g except the two tables of stone that Moses placed there in Horeb, when 3 V. 8. This comment shows the composi-
tion of this history to have preceded the Bablonian cativit and corroborat yp, es my conviction of Isaiah being its author, for which see Second Chronicles, Ch. 32, v. 32, which confirms my conclusion made from And the hinges of tlx doors of the '_ intcma1evideucc.——F. F. 352
