Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Jeremiah 52:20
The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brazen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
20. twelve brasen bulls that were under, etc.] There appears to be some confusion in the MT. In the Temple as built by Solomon the bases were under the lavers, while the twelve bulls supported the sea. (1Ki 7:25; 1Ki 7:44.)
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
twelve brasen bulls that were under – Omitted in 2 Kings and in Jer 27:19. Probably rightly, for what is said here of their being under the bases is a mistake. The bases were under the ten lavers. The Septuagint makes sense by translating it: the twelve brasen bulls under the sea.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 20. See Clarke on Jer 52:18.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Solomon made two pillars, 1Ki 7:15, which, Jer 52:21, he called Jachin and Boaz; Jer 52:23, a molten sea, ten cubits broad; this, Jer 52:25, stood upon twelve oxen, and had ten bases, Jer 52:27; the making of all these took up a vast quantity of brass, as any one will easily judge, who, 1Ki 7:27, readeth the dimensions of these things.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
20. bulls . . . under the basesButthe bulls were not “under the bases,” butunder the sea (1Ki 7:25;1Ki 7:27; 1Ki 7:38);the ten bases were not under the sea, but under the ten lavers. InEnglish Version, “bases,” therefore, must mean thelower parts of the sea under which the bulls were. Rather,translate, “the bulls were in the place of (that is, ‘byway of’; so the Hebrew, 1Sa14:9), bases,” or supports to the sea [BUXTORF].So the Septuagint. 2Ki25:16 omits the “bulls,” and has “and thebases”; so GROTIUShere reads “the bulls (which were) under (the sea) andthe bases.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls,…. The two pillars of Jachin and Boaz before mentioned, and the molten or brasen sea, with the twelve bulls or oxen the sea stood upon, 1Ki 7:25;
that [were] under the bases; or “by the bases”, as Jarchi; or rather, “that were instead of bases” d; for the twelve oxen were the bases on which the molten sea stood:
which King Solomon had made in the house of the Lord; this is mentioned to show that these were the selfsame pillars, sea, and oxen, and other vessels, that Solomon made, that were now carried away; for though Ahaz took down the sea from off the brasen oxen, and put it on a pavement of stones, yet it seems not to have been destroyed; and might be restored to its proper place by Hezekiah, or some other prince;
the brass of all these vessels was without weight; there was no weight sufficient to weigh them; the weight of them could not very well be told; they were so heavy, that in Solomon’s time the weight of them was not taken, when they were placed in the temple, so neither when they were taken away, 1Ki 7:47.
d “qui erant in loco basium”, Piscator,
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
under = beneath.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
two: Jer 52:17
the brass: Heb. their brass
without: 1Ki 7:47, 2Ki 25:16, 1Ch 22:14, 2Ch 4:18
Reciprocal: Exo 27:3 – firepans 1Ki 7:23 – a molten sea 1Ki 7:25 – General 1Ki 7:27 – ten bases 2Ki 16:17 – sea 1Ch 22:3 – without weight 2Ch 3:15 – two pillars
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
52:20 The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without {h} weight.
(h) It was so much in quantity.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
The bronze articles, including the 12 oxen that formed a base for the sea, were so heavy that their weight was beyond calculating. The hollow pillars were 27 feet high, 12 feet in circumference, and about three inches thick. The capitals on top of each pillar were an additional seven and a half feet tall, and each capital had 200 bronze pomegranates (symbols of fertility) carved on it in two rows (1Ki 7:20; 1Ki 7:42). Since we do not know exactly what these capitals looked like, it is very difficult to understand how the writers of Jeremiah and Kings counted and explained the number of pomegranates on them.