Sacrificial Instruments In The Israelitish Sanctuary
Sacrificial Instruments In The Israelitish Sanctuary
For the use of the priests in offering sacrifices, especially those with blood, there were kept in the tabernacle (Exo 27:3; Exo 38:3; Num 4:14) and in the Temple (1Ki 7:40; 1Ki 7:45; 2Ki 25:14 sq.; Jer 52:18 sq.) the following implements of brass:
1. , yaim’, shovels, perhaps to free the altar of burned offering from its ashes; to which the , siroth’, or pots, belonged, into which they were thrown.
2. , mizrakoth’, basins, to take up the blood of the victims for sprinkling.
3. , mizlagoth’, forks, flesh-forks.
4. , machtoth’, firepans, in which coals were taken up.
The brazen , mezammeroth’ (Jer 52:18), may be considered as belonging here, and will then doubtless mean sacrificial knives, elsewhere called , machlaphim’. SEE KNIFE. The golden vases or vessels mentioned in 1Ki 7:50 are certainly different from those just mentioned (No. 2), and were intended for use in the holy place. SEE SACRIFICE; SEE TEMPLE.