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2 Chronicles 4:14 Explained in Context
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Verse 14. 14He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Huram completes the bronze work.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 4:11–18
Read 2 Chronicles 4:14 with 4:11–18. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Huram produces pots, shovels, basins, pillars, capitals, pomegranates, stands, lavers, the sea, oxen, and tools in such abundance that the bronze is not weighed.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “Huram completes the bronze work,” 2 Chronicles 4:14 advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence through the wording “He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The named foreign-connected artisan reappears so royal glory cannot erase craft labor and technical collaboration. 2 Chronicles 4:7–10 has just established this prior movement: Ten gold lampstands and tables, one hundred basins, priestly and great courts, bronze doors, and the sea's location establish ordered worship space. Together those details explain why “Huram completes the bronze work” belongs here rather than merely following a database record.
Read 2 Chronicles 4:11–18 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 4:11–18 forms the complete movement “Huram completes the bronze work”: Huram produces pots, shovels, basins, pillars, capitals, pomegranates, stands, lavers, the sea, oxen, and tools in such abundance that the bronze is not weighed.
Verse 11. 11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;
Verse 12. 12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;
Verse 13. 13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
Verse 14. 14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;
Verse 15. 15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.
Verse 16. 16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.
Verse 17. 17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
Verse 18. 18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
What Remains True
Worship and wisdom remain accountable to covenant, labor, outsiders, resources, and God's freedom; sacred scale never makes royal power or a building immune from review. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: Huram produces pots, shovels, basins, pillars, capitals, pomegranates, stands, lavers, the sea, oxen, and tools in such abundance that the bronze is not weighed. In 2 Chronicles 4:14, the concrete line “He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases” keeps that truth accountable to the narrated evidence.
How It Can Shape Life
- The evidence to keep visible in this verse is “He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases.” When worship, buildings, wealth, or leadership are involved, disclose labor and money, welcome outsiders without stigma, preserve covenant limits, and refuse to measure God's presence by scale or spectacle. This response follows from the unit's own movement: Huram produces pots, shovels, basins, pillars, capitals, pomegranates, stands, lavers, the sea, oxen, and tools in such abundance that the bronze is not weighed.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 2 Chronicles 4:11–18, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 4:11–18
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NET Bible Full Notes: 2 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 2 Chronicles 4:11–18, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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