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• Made of gold1 Kings 7:501 Chronicles 28:172 Chronicles 4:82 Chronicles 4:22Ezra 1:10Ezra 8:27
• Made of brass (bronze)Exodus 27:3Exodus 38:31 Kings 7:45
• See Tabernacle, Furniture of

The passages, in Bible order (9)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 9 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 27:3

   Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 27:32 voices

   “And thou shall make his pans to receive his ashes,....

   “Thou shalt make his pans - סירתיו sirothaiv, a sort or large brazen dishes, which stood under the altar to receive the ashes that fell through the grating. His shovels - יעיו yaaiv. Some render this besoms; but as these were brazen instruments, it is more natural to suppose that some kind of fire-shovels are intended, or scuttles, which were used to carry off the ashes that fell through the grating into the large pan or siroth.

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2. Exodus 38:3

   He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 38:31 voice

   “On this all their sacrifices were offered, and it was this which, being sanctified itself for this purpose by the divine appointment, sanctified the gift that was in faith offered on it. Christ was himself the altar to his own sacrifice of atonement, and so he is to all our sacrifices of acknowledgment.

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3. 1 Kings 7:45

   and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 7:452 voices

   “The Tyrian artists are frequently mentioned by ancient authors as skilful artificers in fashioning and embossing metal cups and bowls; and we need not wonder, therefore, to find them employed by Solomon in making the golden and brazen utensils for his temple and palaces.

   “It is appropriate that the vessels of the Lord's house were cast in the region of the Jordan, namely, in the river in which our Lord deigned to be baptized and by his immersion in the waves of its waters changed the element for us …

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4. 1 Kings 7:50

   the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 7:502 voices

   “If the doors of the inner house of the Holy of Holies are the ministries of angels that unlock the entrance to celestial life for us when we have left the body, and [if] the doors of the house of the temple are the holy …

   “And the bowls,....

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5. 1 Chronicles 28:17

   the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;

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   “Also pure gold for the flesh hooks,.... To take the pieces of flesh out of the pots, in which they were boiled: and the bowls and the cups; and for the golden basins he gave gold by weight for every basin; which were vessels made use of for the receiving and sprinkling the blood of the sacrifices: likewise silver by weight for every basin of silver; for it seems some of them were of silver, as others were of gold.

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6. 2 Chronicles 4:8

   Additionally, he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold bowls.

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 4:81 voice

   “A hundred basons of gold - These were doubtless a sort of paterae or sacrificial spoons, with which they made libations.

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7. 2 Chronicles 4:22

   the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of purest gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main hall.

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 4:221 voice

   “The doors - were of gold - That is, were overlaid with golden plates, the thickness of which we do not know. That every thing in the tabernacle and temple was typical or representative of some excellence of the Gospel dispensation may be readily credited, without going into all the detail produced by the pious author of Solomon’s Temple Spiritualized.

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8. Ezra 1:10

   30 gold bowls, 410 matching silver bowls, and 1,000 other articles.

   ›Commentary on Ezra 1:102 voices

   “Thirty basins of gold,....

   “Sheshbazzar - Zerubbabel; the Chaldeans called him Sheshbazzar, that is, Joy in tribulation, but among his own people he was called Zerubbabel, a stranger in Babylon. So he looked upon himself, tho' (Josephus says) he was captain of the life- guard.

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9. Ezra 8:27

   20 gold bowls valued at 1,000 darics, and two articles of fine polished bronze, as precious as gold.

   ›Commentary on Ezra 8:272 voices

   “Also twenty basins of gold, of a thousand drams,....

   “Twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams - Not of a thousand drams (i. e., darics) each, but worth altogether a thousand darics. As the value of the daric was about 22 shillings of British money, each basin, or saucer, would have been worth (apart from the fashioning) 55 British pounds. Of fine copper - The word translated “fine,” which occurs here only, is thought to mean either “yellow” or “glittering” (see the margin).

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