candlesticks. Compare 2 Chronicles 4:20. Solomon exceeded the pattern in number but followed the design in shape. Size not stated.
pure gold. In Palestine, gold has the least possible alloy, and is exceedingly malleable.
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1 Kings 7:49
49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,