1 Kings 7 — Hebrew and Greek compared
Disparate in this chapter: MT 7:15, MT 7:27
Each card keeps the independently rendered source readings above their shared comparison and reception notes. The badge records the source’s governing classification; disparate readings are marked in red. Each reading retains its original reference.
1 Kings 7
Royal splendor measured beside the house of God
Editorial Christian reading: palace and temple stand together in the account, inviting attention to the direction of royal resources and wisdom.
7:1–12 | Palace buildings and stonework
Greek 7:38 and 7:50 are both included in the first row; the intervening palace description follows in its own order.
Verse MT 7:1 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:1
Solomon built his own house in thirteen years and completed his entire house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:38; 7:50
Solomon built his own house in thirteen years. [7:50] Solomon completed his entire house.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew introduces the palace before the temple furnishings. Greek places the palace after them: its opening duration notice at 38 and closing completion at 50 are aligned together here, with both actual references shown. The intervening Greek palace description appears beside Hebrew 2–12. No source unit is duplicated.
Verse MT 7:2 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:2
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon, a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:39
He built the house with timber from Lebanon’s forest: a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with three rows of cedar pillars and cedar supports for the pillars.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The overall dimensions agree, but Hebrew has four pillar rows and Greek three. Hebrew treats Forest of Lebanon as part of the house’s designation; Greek’s dative forest is rendered as construction material provisionally. Greek shoulder-like supports remain distinct from Hebrew beams.
Verse MT 7:3 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:3
It was roofed with cedar above the side beams on the pillars, forty-five in all, fifteen to a row.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:40
He paneled the house above, over the sides of the pillars. The number of the pillars was forty-five, fifteen to a row.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek expressly counts the pillars; Hebrew’s forty-five can refer to the side members supported by them. Greek does not repeat cedar. The English leaves the Hebrew attachment open rather than making both columns assert the same count’s object.
Verse MT 7:4 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:4
There were three rows of window frames, with window opposite window in three tiers.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:41
There were three beams, and space above space in three tiers.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s window-related terms differ from Greek beams and spaces. Both architectural formulations are compressed; the provisional English does not reconstruct identical walls behind different words.
Verse MT 7:5 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:5
All the doorways and posts had square frames, and window faced window in three tiers.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:42
All the doorways and spaces were square and fitted with beams, with doorway facing door in three tiers.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek has spaces and beam fitting where Hebrew names posts and a frame; its final comparison concerns doorways and doors rather than windows. Threefold arrangement remains common.
Verse MT 7:6 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:6
He made the Hall of Pillars fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a porch in front of them, and pillars and a canopy in front of them.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:43
The porch of the pillars was fifty cubits long and thirty wide, joined together, with a porch in front of them, and pillars and a thick structure in front of it for the porches.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The dimensions agree. Greek adds joined together, uses borrowed singular and plural porch terms, translated porch and porches [D7], and uses thickness in a difficult construction. Canopy for Hebrew av and thick structure for Greek pachos are provisional; the uncertain supports are not reduced to one confident floor plan.
Verse MT 7:7 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:7
He made the Hall of the Throne, where he would judge, the Hall of Judgment; it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:44
There was the porch of the thrones, where he would judge, the porch of the judgment hall.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek has plural thrones and lacks the cedar-paneling clause. Hebrew’s repeated floor is preserved; it is not silently changed to ceiling.
Verse MT 7:8 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:8
His own house, where he would live, in the other court inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom Solomon had married.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:45
He had a house where he would live, with one court opening around these, according to this workmanship; and a house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom Solomon had married, corresponding to this porch.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew specifies the other court inward from the hall; Greek has one court and a difficult unfolding or opening expression. Both retain the separate house for Pharaoh’s daughter without supplying its exact position from another passage.
Verse MT 7:9 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:9
All these were of costly stones, dressed to measure and sawn with a saw inside and outside, from the foundation to the coping, and outside as far as the great court.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:46
All these were of costly stones, carved at intervals inside, from the foundation to the cornices, and outside as far as the great court,
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew explicitly has sawing and measured dressed stone. Greek has carving and an interval expression. The upper architectural limit differs in terminology; the Greek sentence continues into the next verse’s description of the court.
Verse MT 7:10 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:10
The foundation was of costly stones, great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:47
which was founded on costly, great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits,
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The foundation materials and two sizes agree. Greek grammatically attaches the foundation description to the preceding great court; Hebrew states the foundation description independently.
Verse MT 7:11 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:11
Above were costly stones dressed to measure, and cedar.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:48
and above, costly stones according to the measure of unhewn stones, and cedars.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s dressed stone differs from Greek apeleketon, unhewn. The awkward Greek combination of measure and unhewn material is retained rather than corrected to the Hebrew construction term.
Verse MT 7:12 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:12
Around the great court were three courses of dressed stone and a course of cedar beams, as for the inner court of YHWH’s house and the house’s porch.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:49
Around the great court were three courses of unhewn stones and a course of carved cedar.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks the comparison with the temple’s inner court and porch. The stone descriptions also differ, dressed versus unhewn, while the three-plus-one course arrangement agrees.
The work of skilled hands in sacred service
Editorial reading with the temple theme in John 2:19–22 [C3]. No unsupported sacramental identity is assigned to each vessel.
7:13–22 | Hiram and the bronze pillars
Verse MT 7:13 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:13
King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:1
King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre,
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The royal commission and craftsman’s origin agree. This begins the Greek chapter before its later palace description; the changed order is recorded in the numbering guide.
Verse MT 7:14 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:14
He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a Tyrian man, a bronze worker. He was filled with wisdom, discernment, and knowledge for doing every kind of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:2
a widow’s son, and he was from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was a Tyrian man, a bronze craftsman, filled with skill, understanding, and knowledge for doing every work in bronze. He was brought to King Solomon and did all the works.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek’s filled participle grammatically follows the father’s description; Hebrew’s new verb more readily resumes Hiram. The attachment remains visible rather than being resolved identically. Greek also has passive introduction to the king, against Hebrew’s came. Neither column alters Naphtali to match a parallel account.
Verse MT 7:15 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:15
He fashioned the two bronze pillars. One pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a cord of twelve cubits encircled the second pillar.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:3
He cast the two pillars for the house’s porch. The pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a circumference of fourteen cubits encircled it. The pillar’s thickness was four fingerbreadths, with hollow spaces; and the second pillar was the same.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: The circumference differs, twelve cubits versus fourteen. Greek adds the porch location, thickness, hollow construction, and explicit equality of the second pillar. Hebrew gives height for one and circumference for the second; that distribution is not silently rewritten.
Verse MT 7:16 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:16
He made two capitals of cast bronze to place on top of the pillars. One capital was five cubits high, and the second capital was five cubits high.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:4
He made two capitals to place on top of the pillars, of cast bronze. One capital was five cubits high, and the second capital was five cubits high.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The two capitals, material, purpose, and repeated five-cubit heights agree.
Verse MT 7:17 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:17
There were networks of latticework, festoons of chainwork, for the capitals on top of the pillars: seven for one capital and seven for the second capital.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:5
He made two nets to cover the pillars’ capital: one net for one capital and one net for the second capital.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew specifies chain-like festoons and seven for each capital; Greek has two covering nets, one per capital. The figures are attached to their respective objects without inventing a reconciliation.
Verse MT 7:18 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:18
He made the pillars and two rows around one network, to cover the capitals that were on top of the pomegranates; he did likewise for the second capital.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:6
There was hanging work: two rows of bronze pomegranates interwoven as a net, hanging work, row upon row. He did likewise for the second capital.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew’s pillars and capitals on top of pomegranates form a difficult sequence; the nouns are not exchanged to create a smoother reconstruction. Greek explicitly describes bronze pomegranates in hanging network and repeats hanging work.
Verse MT 7:19 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:19
The capitals on top of the pillars in the porch were lily-work, four cubits.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:8
On top of the pillars was lily-work corresponding to the porch, four cubits.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: The lily design and four-cubit measure agree. Greek expresses the relationship to the porch differently and does not repeat capitals.
Verse MT 7:20 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:20
There were capitals on both pillars, also above beside the rounded projection beyond the network; two hundred pomegranates were in rows around the second capital.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:9
There was a beam over both pillars, and above the sides the beam formed a capital in its thickness.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The Hebrew rounded projection and two hundred pomegranates differ from Greek’s beam-and-thickness description. Both architectural clauses are difficult; the Greek is rendered provisionally without importing the Hebrew objects or number.
Verse MT 7:21 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:21
He set up the pillars at the temple’s porch. He set up the right pillar and called it Jachin; he set up the left pillar and called it Boaz.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:7
He set up the pillars of the temple’s porch. He set up one pillar and called it Iachoum; he set up the second pillar and called it Boaz.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew specifies right and left; Greek has one and second. Jachin differs from the printed Greek Iachoum, while Boaz is securely corresponding. Greek places the erection and naming before its lily-work and beam descriptions.
Verse MT 7:22 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:22
On top of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work on the pillars was completed.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
No LXX counterpart
[No separate Greek counterpart in this sequence; compare 7:8.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Hebrew repeats the lily-work and closes the pillar construction. Greek’s related lily notice is already aligned with Hebrew 19 and is not duplicated here.
7:23–26 | The cast sea and its supporting oxen
Verse MT 7:23 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:23
He made the cast Sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, round all around and five cubits high; a line of thirty cubits encircled it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:10
He made the Sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, round all around and five cubits high; thirty-three cubits in all encircled it.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The stated circumference differs, thirty versus thirty-three cubits; the ten-cubit span and five-cubit height agree. Hebrew specifies casting. The approximate geometry is retained without correcting either ancient measurement.
Verse MT 7:24 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:24
Gourd-shaped ornaments encircled it beneath its brim, ten to a cubit, surrounding the Sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:11
Supports encircled it beneath its brim all around, ten to a cubit, holding up the Sea all around.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek describes supports rather than gourd ornaments and lacks the two-row casting notice. The shared ten-to-a-cubit figure remains attached to each source’s own object.
Verse MT 7:25 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:25
It stood on twelve cattle: three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea was above them, and all their hindquarters faced inward.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:13
Twelve cattle were beneath the Sea: three facing north, three facing the sea, three facing south, and three facing east. All their hindquarters faced the house, and the Sea was above them.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek uses sea for the western direction and toward the house where Hebrew has inward. It places this support notice after the brim description. Both retain twelve cattle in four groups of three.
Verse MT 7:26 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:26
Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:12
Its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily shoot, and its thickness was a palm.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks the two-thousand-bath capacity and reverses the order of brim and thickness. Handbreadth and palm are corresponding ancient body measures; neither is converted to a modern quantity.
7:27–39 | The stands and basins
Verse MT 7:27 Disparate
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:27
He made ten bronze stands. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:14
He made ten bronze stands. Each stand was five cubits long, four cubits wide, and six cubits high.
Classification & Notes
Disparate
Text: The stands’ length and height differ: 4 by 4 by 3 cubits in Hebrew, 5 by 4 by 6 in Greek. Mechonoth is Greek’s borrowed stand term, used even with a singular article [D9]. Stand or stands follows the immediate grammar; the total remains ten.
Verse MT 7:28 Similar
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:28
This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and panels between the crosspieces.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:15
This was the construction of the stands: they had enclosed panels, and enclosed panels between the projecting parts.
Classification & Notes
Similar
Text: Both describe panels between structural members. Greek emphasizes enclosure and projection; the precise identification of the members remains provisional.
Verse MT 7:29 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:29
On the panels between the crosspieces were lions, cattle, and cherubim; above the crosspieces was a base, and beneath the lions and cattle were garlands in descending work.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:16
On their enclosed panels between the projecting parts were lions, cattle, and cherubim, and likewise on the projecting parts. Above and below the lions and cattle were spaces, in descending work.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek has likewise where Hebrew can be read as a base, and spaces above and below where Hebrew describes garlands below. Descending work preserves the difficult shared downward-work expression without imposing a certain relief technique.
Verse MT 7:30 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:30
Each stand had four bronze wheels and bronze axles. Its four feet had supports; beneath the basin the supports were cast, each beside garlands.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:17
Each stand had four bronze wheels and bronze attachments; their four parts had shoulders beneath the basins.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks the final casting and garland details, and uses broader attachment and shoulder terms. The four wheels agree. Both descriptions remain provisional where the exact mechanical components are uncertain.
Verse MT 7:31 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:31
Its opening rose a cubit from within the crown. Its opening was round, made as a pedestal, a cubit and a half; on its opening were carvings. Their panels were square, not round.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
No LXX counterpart
[No Greek counterpart in this sequence.]
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks this opening-and-panel description. Hebrew’s changing pronouns and two measurements are retained without assigning them to a reconstructed mechanism with unwarranted certainty.
Verse MT 7:32 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:32
The four wheels were beneath the panels, and the wheels’ axles were in the stand. The height of each wheel was a cubit and a half.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:18
The wheels’ arms were in the stand, and the height of each wheel was a cubit and a half.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek lacks the opening four-wheels-beneath-panels clause. Hebrew yadot and Greek hands are rendered as axles and arms provisionally in the mechanical setting. The wheel height agrees.
Verse MT 7:33 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:33
The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all cast.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:19
The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their arms, backs, and assembled work were all cast.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew lists four components, conventionally identified here as axles, rims, spokes, and hubs. Greek names arms, backs, and a broader workmanship term. The ancient mechanical vocabulary is not falsely treated as a verified modern parts diagram.
Verse MT 7:34 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:34
Each stand had four supports at its four corners; its supports were of one piece with the stand.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:20
Each stand had four shoulders at its four corners; its shoulders were of one piece with the stand.
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The corner count and integral construction agree. Shoulders retains the Greek body metaphor where the Hebrew cognate is rendered contextually as supports.
Verse MT 7:35 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:35
At the top of the stand was a round band half a cubit high. Its handles and panels at the top of the stand were of one piece with it.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:21
At the top of the stand was a round part half a cubit in size, all around at its top, with the beginnings of its arms and its enclosed panels; it opened onto the beginnings of its arms.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek repeats the top location, speaks of size rather than explicit height, and adds an opening clause. Hebrew states integral construction. Band and the connecting Greek architectural phrases are provisional.
Verse MT 7:36 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:36
On the plates of its handles and on its panels he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space for each, with garlands all around.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:22
Its enclosed panels had cherubim, lions, and palm trees standing, each adjoining the next toward its front, inside and all around.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek lacks the explicit engraving verb and garlands, and gives a difficult standing-and-adjoining arrangement. Hebrew’s space-for-each phrase is itself uncertain. The English preserves the two descriptive patterns provisionally.
Verse MT 7:37 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:37
Thus he made the ten stands: all had one casting, one measure, and one form.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:23
According to this pattern he made all ten stands, with one arrangement and one measure for all.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek has arrangement and measure but does not name a single casting or separately repeat form. Both assert uniformity across all ten.
Verse MT 7:38 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:38
He made ten bronze basins; each basin held forty baths, and each basin measured four cubits. There was one basin on each of the ten stands.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:24
He made ten bronze basin vessels; each basin vessel held forty choes by measure. There was one basin vessel on each of the ten stands.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek has choes where Hebrew has baths and lacks the four-cubit dimension. Its rare chytrokaulos vessel term is rendered provisionally as basin vessel. The equal numeral forty does not establish equal capacity when the units differ.
Verse MT 7:39 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:39
He placed five stands on the right side of the house and five on the left. He placed the Sea on the right side of the house, eastward toward the south.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:25
He placed the ten stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left. The Sea was on the right side of the house, eastward toward the southern slope.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Greek expressly repeats ten and uses a southern-slope expression. The division of five on each side and the southeastern position of the Sea agree in general orientation.
7:40–51 | The completed bronze and gold furnishings
Verse MT 7:40 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:40
Hiram made the basins, shovels, and bowls. Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon for YHWH’s house:
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:26
Hiram made the cauldrons, braziers, and bowls. Hiram finished all the works that he did for King Solomon in the Lord’s house:
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names basins and shovels; Greek names cauldrons and heating vessels, here braziers. The repeated completion notice introduces the following inventory in both columns.
Verse MT 7:41 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:41
the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars, and the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:27
two pillars, the two twisted ornaments of the pillars on top of the pillars, and the two nets covering both twisted ornaments of the carvings on the pillars;
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew describes the capitals’ rounded bowls; Greek has twisted ornaments and carvings. The twofold count and covering nets agree, while the ornamental vocabulary remains distinct.
Verse MT 7:42 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:42
the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, covering the two bowl-shaped capitals on the fronts of the pillars;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:28
four hundred pomegranates for both nets, two rows of pomegranates for each net, covering both twisted ornaments on both pillars;
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The pomegranate and row counts agree. Hebrew has rounded capitals and an unusual on-the-fronts location; Greek repeats its twisted ornaments and both pillars.
Verse MT 7:43 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:43
the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:29
the ten stands and the ten basin vessels on the stands;
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: The stand-and-vessel inventory agrees in number and placement. Greek’s borrowed stand term is translated stands [D9]; its compound vessel term remains basin vessels.
Verse MT 7:44 Same
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:44
the one Sea and the twelve cattle beneath the Sea;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:30
the one Sea and the twelve cattle beneath the Sea;
Classification & Notes
Same
Text: Both inventory quantities and their spatial relationship agree.
Verse MT 7:45 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:45
the pots, shovels, and bowls, and all these utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon for YHWH’s house, of polished bronze.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:31
the cauldrons, braziers, bowls, and all the utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon for the Lord’s house, and the forty-eight pillars of the king’s house and the Lord’s house. All the king’s works that Hiram made were entirely of bronze.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek adds forty-eight pillars associated with both houses and a separate all-bronze conclusion. Hebrew has polished bronze. Its displayed ha’ehel is a difficult form here, rendered these contextually; it is not used to invent tent utensils. The Greek continuation after the verse marker is included in full.
Verse MT 7:46 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:46
In the Jordan plain the king cast them in the thick earth, between Succoth and Zarethan.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:33
In the region around the Jordan the king cast them in the thick earth, between Succoth and Sira.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The casting location’s second name differs, Zarethan versus Sira. Thick earth preserves the source phrasing without identifying a specific excavated foundry. Greek places this notice after the unmeasured-bronze statement.
Verse MT 7:47 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:47
Solomon left all the utensils unweighed because they were exceedingly numerous; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:32
There was no measured weight of the bronze from which he made all these works, because of its great abundance; there was no limit to the weight of the bronze.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew names Solomon and his leaving the utensils, with unweighed supplied from the final clause. Greek repeats the absence of a determined weight and a limit. Neither assertion is converted into an exact tonnage.
Verse MT 7:48 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:48
Solomon made all the utensils for YHWH’s house: the gold altar and the gold table on which was the bread of the Presence;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:34
King Solomon placed the utensils he had made in the Lord’s house: the gold altar and the gold table on which were the loaves of the offering;
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Hebrew has made and all; Greek describes placement and adds king. The table bread is named Presence in Hebrew and offering in Greek, without importing a later liturgical identification into either column.
Verse MT 7:49 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:49
the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right and five on the left before the inner sanctuary; the flower-work, lamps, and tongs of gold;
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:35
the lampstands of refined gold, five on the right and five on the left before the inner sanctuary; and the lamp holders, lamps, and ladles of gold;
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: The ten lampstands and their placement agree. Greek has lamp holders and ladles where Hebrew has flower-work and tongs. Refined provisionally renders the Greek closed-together gold description, as in chapter 6.
Verse MT 7:50 Different
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:50
the basins, snuffers, bowls, dishes, and firepans of pure gold; and the gold hinges for the doors of the innermost house, the Holy of Holies, and for the doors of the main hall.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:36
the entranceways, nails, bowls, dishes, and censers of refined gold; and the doorframes of the innermost house, the Holy of Holies, and the gold doors of the temple house.
Classification & Notes
Different
Text: Several objects differ: Hebrew basins and snuffers become Greek entranceways and nails, and Hebrew hinges become Greek doorframes and doors. The striking Greek inventory is retained rather than corrected to the expected furnishings.
Verse MT 7:51 Divergent
Hebrew–English: Literal-Smooth (Rabbinic Priority)
MT 7:51
All the work that King Solomon did for YHWH’s house was completed. Solomon brought in the things his father David had consecrated, the silver, gold, and utensils, and placed them in the treasuries of YHWH’s house.
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
LXX 7:37
All the work that Solomon did for the Lord’s house was completed. Solomon brought in the things his father David had consecrated and all Solomon’s consecrated things, the silver, gold, and utensils, and placed them in the treasuries of the Lord’s house.
Classification & Notes
Divergent
Text: Greek expressly adds Solomon’s own consecrated things. It places this temple completion before the palace description, whereas Hebrew closes the chapter here. The dedications are retained as material gifts, without supplying unmentioned motives or provenance.