Solomon's Temple Volume 61; Or, the Tabernacle ... (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...in the base (aa"); and the height of the one wheel was a cubit and half a cubit (a'h)." 33. "And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot-wheel, --their axle-trees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves: the whole was cast." Bem.--" Naves;" that is, hubs. "The whole was cast: " thus they were each in one piece. The felloes of the rim, the spokes, and the hubs were not cast separately, and put together; but they were cast whole or together. 34. "And four shoulders (cje, c'ne') were at the four corners of the one base: out of the base were the shoulders of it." Bem.--Compare "And thou shalt make the horns of it (of the altar of burnt-offering, Fig. 5, PI. II.) upon the four corners of it: out of it shall the horns of it be," Exod. xxvii. 2. Thus these shoulders of the lavers (cje, c'ne') were out of the bases, at the corners, like the horns of an altar; but in the bases they kept the lavers (j'ge'n') in place. 35. "And on the head" = top "of the base (cc'), half a cubit was the height (jj' or nn') round " = circular "about; and upon the head of the base were its hands (cje, c'ne'), and its closures (ff'i'i) were from it." Bem.--The pedestal (jj'n'n) was thus " round" and "half a cubit high" (jj' or cd). The shoulders are here called hands; two names, as usual, being given to the same thing. 36. "And he carved upon the tablets (acc'a"), the hands " = sides "of it, and upon the closures (ff'i'i) of it, cherubim, lions, and palmtrees (Fig. 5, PI. XII.), according to the room of each, and wreaths about (bec', c'a")," &c. Bem.--Within the house (PI. X.), a palmtree stood between every two cherubim...