Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . 505 of one base: arid the undersetters were of tlie vei-ybase itself. And in the top of the base was there a ronnd com-pass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the basethe ledges thereof and the borders thereof were f-f the same. For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on theborders thereof, he graved chej-nbim, lions, and


Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . 505 of one base: arid the undersetters were of tlie vei-ybase itself. And in the top of the base was there a ronnd com-pass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the basethe ledges thereof and the borders thereof were f-f the same. For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on theborders thereof, he graved chej-nbim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the proportion of every one, andadditions round about. After this manner he made the ten bases: all ofthem had one casting, one measure, and one size. Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver con-tained forty baths : and every laver was four cubits:and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. And he put five bases on the right side of thehouse, and five on the left side of the house : and heset the sea on the right side of the house eastward,over against the south. And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and thebasins. So Iliram made an end of doing all the workthat he made Idng Solomon for the house of the Lord: The two pi


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