Discovery Box1 Kings 7:23 
Context7:23 He also made the large bronze basin called “The Sea.” 1 It measured 15 feet 2 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven-and-a-half feet 3 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 4
1 Kings 7:31
Context7:31 Inside the stand was a round opening that was a foot-and-a-half deep; it had a support that was two and one-quarter feet long. 5 On the edge of the opening were carvings in square frames. 6
1 Kings 10:7
Context10:7 I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! 7 Your wisdom and wealth 8 surpass what was reported to me.
1 Kings 13:8
Context13:8 But the prophet said to the king, “Even if you were to give me half your possessions, 9 I could not go with you and eat and drink 10 in this place.
1 Kings 16:9
Context16:9 His servant Zimri, a commander of half of his chariot force, conspired against him. While Elah was drinking heavily 11 at the house of Arza, who supervised the palace in Tirzah,
1 tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”
sn This large basin that was mounted on twelve bronze bulls and contained water for the priests to bathe themselves (2 Chr 4:6; cf. Exod 30:17-21).
2 tn Heb “ten cubits.”
3 tn Heb “five cubits.”
4 tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”
5 tn Heb “And its opening from the inside to the top and upwards [was] a cubit, and its opening was round, the work of a stand, a cubit-and-a-half.” The precise meaning of this description is uncertain.
6 tn Heb “also over its opening were carvings and their frames [were] squared, not round.”
7 tn Heb “the half was not told to me.”
8 tn Heb “good.”
9 tn Heb “house.”
10 tn Heb “eat food and drink water.”
11 tn Heb “while he was drinking and drunken.”
