(b) HURAM’S WORKS IN BRASS (2 Chronicles 4:11-18)
Comp. 1 Kings 7:40-47.
Throughout this section the narrative almost textually coincides with the parallel account.
(11) And Huram made the pots. — 1 Kings 7:40 has “lavers” (pans). Our reading, “pots,” appears correct, supported as it is by many MSS. and the LXX. and Vulg. of Kings. A single stroke makes the difference between the two words in Hebrew writing. These “pots” were scuttles for carrying away the ashes of the altar.
Basons. — “Bowls” (mizrâqôth). Probably the same as the mizrâqîm of 2 Chronicles 4:8. So kîyôrôth (Kings) and kîyôrîm (Chron.).
Huram. — Hebrew text, Hiram, as in Kings. The LXX. renders: “And Hiram made the fleshhooks (κρεάγρας) and the firepans (πυρεια), and the hearth of the altar and all its vessels.”
The work. — Kings, “all the work,” and so some MSS., LXX., and Vulg. of Chron. The Syriac and Arabic omit 2 Chronicles 4:11-17; 2 Chronicles 4:19-22.
He was to make. — Rather, he made.
For the house. — In the house. Chronicles supplies the preposition in, which is not required according to ancient usage.