the bowls] i.e. the bowl-shaped part of the capital of a pillar.
the chapiters] In modern English “capitals.”
¹⁴He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases; ¹⁵one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
14. He made also the bases, and the lavers made he upon the bases] A simple correction of the Hebrew text gives, And the ten bases and the ten lavers on the bases, as in 1 Kings vii. 43.
¹⁶The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all the vessels thereof, did Huram his father make for king Solomon for the house of the Lord of bright brass.
16. the fleshhooks] Hebrew mizlāgōth. In verse 11 and 1 Kings vii. 45 (the parallel passages) the basons (Hebrew mizrāḳōth).
Huram his father] See note on ii. 13.
¹⁷In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
17. in the clay ground] G. A. Smith (Historical Geography, p. 488) speaks of traces of old brick-fields found by Sir C. Warren in the Jordan valley. It is possible, however, that the Hebrew is defective and that the true reading is at the ford of Adamah, but on the whole it is best to keep the reading in the text (see Barnes on 1 Kings vii. 46).
Succoth] Succoth is probably Tell Deir ‘Alla, east of Jordan, about one mile north of the Jabbok.