Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:
Parallel translations
- WEB and the forks, the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;
- BSB the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;
- NKJV also pure gold for the forks, the basins, the pitchers of pure gold, and the golden bowls—he gave gold by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls, silver by weight for every bowl;
- NASB and the forks, the basins, and the pitchers of pure gold; and for the golden bowls with the weight for each bowl; and for the silver bowls with the weight for each bowl;
- NLT David also designated the amount of gold for the solid gold meat hooks used to handle the sacrificial meat and for the basins, pitchers, and dishes, as well as the amount of silver for every dish.
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Quick answer
David provided pure gold for the forks, basins, and cups, and weighed gold and silver for the bowls. It details the sacred vessels of pure metal.
Overview
The plans specified pure gold and weighed silver for the utensils used in sacrifice and service. The purity of the metals matched the holiness required in approaching God. Such consecrated vessels remind us that what serves the Lord is to be set apart and undefiled.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Num 7:13–14And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them were full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
- 1 Sam 2:13–14And the priests’ custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;
- 1 Kgs 7:48–50And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
- 1 Kgs 10:21And all king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
- 2 Chr 4:20–22Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
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