1 Kings 7:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

molten sea. brazen laver. "Sea" put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct) for what contained it.

a line of thirty cubits. Here the proportion of the diameter to the circumference (1 Kings 1:3) was revealed, while human wisdom was still searching it out.

1 Kings 7:23

23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.