1 Kings 7:35

35. Round compass of half a cubit high This was the convex roof of the smaller base above, (k k in figure,) which rested on the top of the ledges, (1 Kings 7:29,) and supported in turn the more immediate base-work of the laver. See note on 1 Kings 7:31.

The ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same Literally, on the top of the base its hands and its panels of it. What these hands, or supports, on the top of the base, were, it is hard to determine. But as the word in 1 Kings 7:32-33 was used of the stays that fastened the axles to the base, and are called the hands of the wheels rather than the legs of the base, so here, we incline to take the hands of the base for the legs or supports of the laver, called also in 1 Kings 7:31 the base-work of the laver. (n n n in figure.) It is there called base-work rather than a base, because it was made of several pieces of metal set underneath the laver with open spaces between, and not of a solid cube, like the lower bases. The round compass had also panels, like the lower base and the surface of the laver, (w w in figure,) and these, like them, were covered with sculptured work.

Of the same Or, of it; that is, cast, like the undersetters, (1 Kings 7:34,) so as to be one piece with the base itself.