1 Kings 7:33
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
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Gill's Exposition
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base,.... Or pillars, as in Kg1 7:30.
and the undersetters were of the base itself; they were cast together, and of the same piece of…
We have here an account of the brass-work about the temple. There was no iron about the temple, though we find David preparing for the temple iron for things of iron, Ch1 29:2. What those things were…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
their axletrees Literally, -hands" as in the previous verse.
their naves By etymology the original word must refer to some curved part of the wheel. It seems better therefore to render, with R.V.,…