SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:3
Y debajo de él había figuras de bueyes que lo circundaban, diez en cada codo todo alrededor; eran dos órdenes de bueyes fundidos juntamente con el mar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 2 Chronicles 4:3
Verse 3. Under it was the similitude of oxen] In 1 Kings vii. 24, instead of oxen, µyrqb bekarim, we have knops, µy[qp pekaim; and this last is supposed by able critics to be the reading which ought to be received here. What we call knops may signify grapes, mushrooms, apples, or some such ornaments placed round about under the turned over lip or brim of this caldron. It is possible that µyrqb bekarim, oxen, may be a corruption of µy[qp pekaim, grapes, as the p pe might be mistaken for a b beth, to which in ancient MSS. it has often a great resemblance, the dot under the top being often faint and indistinct; and the [ ain, on the same account might be mistaken for a r resh. Thus grapes might be turned into oxen.
Houbigant contends that the words in both places are right; but that rqb bakar does not signify ox here, but al large kind of grape, according to its meaning in Arabic: and thus both places will agree. But I do not find that bakar, or bakarat, has any such meaning in Arabic. He was probably misled by the following, in the Arabic Lexicon, Camus, inserted under bakara, both by Giggeius and Golius, aino albikri, ox-eye, which is interpreted Genus uvae nigrae ac praeprandis, incredibilis dulcedinis. In Palaestina autem pro prunis absolute usurpatur. "A species of black grape, very large, and of incredible sweetness. It is used in Palestine for prune or plum." What is called the Damascene plum is doubtless meant; but µyrqb bekarim, in the text, can never have this meaning, unless indeed we found it associated with y[ ayin, eye, and then µyrqb yny[ eyney bekarim might, according to the Arabic, be translated plums, grapes, sloes, or such like, especially those of the largest kind, which in size resemble the eye of an ox. But the criticism of this great man is not solid. The likeliest method of reconciling the two places is supposing a change in the letters, as specified above. The reader will at once see that what are called the oxen, 2 Chron. iv. 3, said to be round about the brim, are widely different from those ver. 4, by which this molten sea was supported.
Matthew Henry Commentary
The furniture of the temple.
--Here is a further account of the furniture of God's house. Bot without doors and within, there was that which typified the grace of the gospel, and shadowed out good things to come, of which the substance is Christ. There was the brazen altar. The making of this wa not mentioned in the book of Kings. On this all the sacrifices wer offered, and it sanctified the gift. The people who worshipped in the courts might see the sacrifices burned. They might thus be led to consider the great Sacrifice, to be offered in the fulness of time, to take away sin, and put an end to death, which the blood of bulls an goats could not possibly do. And, with the smoke of the sacrifices their hearts might ascend to heaven, in holy desires towards God an his favour. In all our devotions we must keep the eye of faith fixe upon Christ. The furniture of the temple, compared with that of the tabernacle, showed that God's church would be enlarged, and his worshippers multiplied. Blessed be God, there is enough in Christ for all __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ודמות 1823 בקרים 1241 תחת 8478 לו סביב 5439 סביב 5439 סובבים 5437 אתו 853 עשׂר 6235 באמה 520 מקיפים 5362 את 853 הים 3220 סביב 5439 שׁנים 8147 טורים 2905 הבקר 1241 יצוקים 3332 במצקתו׃ 4166
