1 Kings 7:40

And Hiram made the layers [So the Rec. Text. But perhaps we ought to read סִירוֹת , i.e; pots, here, as in 1 Kings 7:45 and 2 Chronicles 4:11 . This word is joined with shovels and basons, not only in these two passages, but also in Exodus 27:3 , 2 Kings 25:14 , Jeremiah 52:18 ; in other words, the appropriate term in this connexion would be "pots," while "layers," having been just mentioned in verse 38, would involve an idle repetition. Altogether, therefore, there can be little doubt that we should here read הסירות for הכירות . It is apparently the reading of the Chald; LXX ; and some MSS . These" pots "were used, not for carrying away the ashes (Keil), but, as the name implies ( סִיר , effervescere ) , for boiling the flesh of the peace offering ( 1 Samuel 2:13 , 1 Samuel 2:14 ), and the shovels [these, again, as the name implies, were used for taking away the ashes from the altar ( Exodus 27:3 ; Numbers 4:14 ), and the basons. [The sacrificial bowls for receiving the blood of the victims ( Exodus 38:3 ; Numbers 4:14 ).] So Hiram made an end of doing all the work [the writer now recapitulates the work of Hiram. The repetition may be due to the fact that the history was compiled from various lists and documents] that he made king Solomon for [Heb. omits the prep.] the house of the Lord .