They also took all the ash buckets, shovels, lamp snuffers, ladles, and all the other bronze articles used for making sacrifices at the Temple.
Parallel translations
- WEB They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.
- KJV And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.
- BSB They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.
- NKJV They also took away the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered.
- NASB And they took away the pots, the shovels, the shears, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils which were used in temple service.
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Quick answer
The Babylonians seized all the bronze vessels used in temple worship. The instruments set apart for serving God were plundered and removed.
Overview
Pots, shovels, snuffers, spoons, and other bronze utensils used in the daily ministry of the temple were carried off. These were holy vessels, dedicated to the service of Yahweh, now treated as spoils of war. Their loss marks the cessation of temple worship under judgment, a sorrow that deepens the longing for the perfect and lasting worship secured through Christ.
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- Exod 27:3You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its meat hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass.
- 1 Kgs 7:47–50Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the brass could not be determined.
- 2 Chr 24:14When they had finished, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, from which were made vessels for Yahweh’s house, even vessels with which to minister and to offer, including spoons and vessels of gold and silver. They offered burnt offerings in Yahweh’s house continually all the days of Jehoiada.
- Exod 38:3He made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, the shovels, the basins, the forks, and the fire pans. He made all its vessels of brass.
- 2 Chr 4:20–22and the lamp stands with their lamps, to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold;
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