Discovery Box1 Kings 7:38 
Context7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. 1 Each basin was six feet in diameter; 2 there was one basin for each stand.
1 Kings 7:40
Context7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He 3 finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 4
1 tn Heb “forty baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).
2 tn Heb “four cubits, each basin.” It is unclear which dimension is being measured.
3 tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
4 tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the
