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1 Kings 7:42 Explained in Context
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Verse 42. 42And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Hiram's bronze work is inventoried.”
Read It With
- 1 Kings 7:40–47
Read 1 Kings 7:42 with 7:40–47. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Credits Hiram with completing the basins, shovels, bowls, and all commissioned bronze work; says the immense quantity of bronze vessels kept Solomon from weighing them.
Why It Needs Context
1 Kings 7:42 depends on 7:40–47; isolating “And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Hiram's bronze work is inventoried.”
Read 1 Kings 7:40–47 together
Why these verses belong together: Hiram's bronze work is inventoried is the complete reviewed scene, prayer, oracle, list, or regnal notice bounded at 7:40–7:47.
Verse 40. 40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
Verse 41. 41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
Verse 42. 42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
Verse 43. 43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
Verse 44. 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
Verse 45. 45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
Verse 46. 46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
Verse 47. 47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
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Biblical text
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