1 Kings 7:28

1Ki 7:28 And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:

Ver. 28. They had borders.] Around the vessel, like panes of wainscotting; whereon were engraven lions, oxen, and cherubims; to teach the priests courage, painfulness, and prudence.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

28. they had borders] From the description in the next verse, the word, which in its literal sense would apply to any surrounding or enclosure, must mean the side of the base, on which the figures mentioned in 29 were carved or cast. So that the panels of the R.V. (marg.) would be the most correct rendering. And so in 1Ki_7:31-32; 1Ki_7:35-36.

between the ledges] These seem to have been the perpendicular shafts, at the four corners of each base, which would be raised so as to form two sides of the framework enclosing the panels. A more strictly literal rendering of the final words would be ‘even borders between the ledges.’

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims,.... The figures of them, for ornament sake; the cherubim, being distinguished from lions and oxen might be figures of men, or else of eagles, as Josephus (y), see Eze 1:10.

and upon the ledges there was a base above; a flat piece of brass laid upon the top of the staves or bars:

and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work; these, according to Dr. Lightfoot (z), whom I chiefly follow in this account, were shelving plates of brass at the bottom of the borders and bars, where the priests washed the sacrifice; the filth of which ran off the easier, through the angle of them.

(y) Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 8. c. 3. sect. 5.) (z) Prospect of the Temple, ch. 38. sect. 2.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Borders - Rather, “panels” (so 1Ki 7:32, 1Ki 7:35), a set of square compartments between the “ledges” or borders, or mouldings. Below the panelling, with its ornamentation of lions, oxen (the two animal forms which occur most frequently in Assyrian decoration), and cherubim, was a space decorated with “additions of thin work” 1Ki 7:29.

Upon the “ledges” 1Ki 7:29 which surrounded the top of the base there was a stand for the laver, distinct from the upper surface of the base.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

And. Hebrew is very obscure in this and the following verse. Indeed interpreters are so little agreed about the precise signification of some of the terms, that it is not necessary to repeat their sentiments.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

They had borders; broad brims, possibly for the more secure holding of the lavers.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

28. They had borders — מסגרות, inclosed panels. (a a a in figure.)

Between the ledges — שׁלבים, joints; fastening places. The corner pieces which joined upon and fastened the panels. (b b in figure.)

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

And the work of the bases was on this manner Heb. and this the work of the base: they had borders troGsmi (from rgs, clausit) means strictly enclosings, i.e., sides, forming the stand. They were panels, because of the borders or ledges mentioned presently, but this was the accident of their construction. The translation "border" gives a totally wrong impression, and the borders were between the ledges Heb. the sides were between the borders, i.e., were enclosed by ledges or frames.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Borders - Broad brims, possibly for the more secure holding of the lavers.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

They had frames. I saw in the Mishnah of “Forty-Nine Measurements,” that the מסגרות were in the form of טבלאות.

They had frames. The frames were from the axle of one wheel to the axle of the other wheel. And the “יד אופן” is the wood which is inserted into the wheel, in the hole, and it is called essieu, in O.F. And the four wheels of the base had frames on this side and frames on the other side, on all four sides; between one and the other, was a width of four amohs, and above there were “blocks [=סרנים which means] the same as “boards” [=נסרים], against the frames, and the ledges were from the lower [frames] to the upper ones, and there were other frames between the ledges, like the design of the legs of the bed of villagers which are not round but protrude [in order] to decorate them with lions and cherubim. But I say, that these ledges were like the rungs of a ladder, sort of copper rods standing on the lower frames, there were two or three rods. The frames were set between one rod and the other, connected from one ledge to the other. [Targum] Yonoson, also, rendered “ledges.”

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.