the laver

Exodus 30:18-21 You shall also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash with...

Exodus 40:7,30-32 And you shall set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shall put water therein...

1 Kings 7:23-26,38 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits...

Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands in innocence: so will I compass your altar, O LORD:

Zechariah 13:1 In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

John 13:10 Jesus said to him, He that is washed needs not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and you are clean, but not all.

Titus 3:5,6 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration...

Hebrews 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

1 John 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

Revelation 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth...

looking glasses. or, brazen glasses. The word maroth, from raah, to see, denotes reflectors, or mirrors, of any kind. That these could not have been looking glasses, as in our translation, is sufficiently evident, not only from the glass not being then in use, but also from the impossibility of making the brazen laver of such materials. The first mirrors known among men, were the clear fountain and unruffled lake. The first artificial ones were made of polished brass, afterwards of steel, and when luxury increased, of silver; but at a very early period, they were made of a mixed metal, particularly of tin and copper, the best of which as Pliny informs us, were formerly manufactured at Brundusium. When the Egyptians went to their temples, according to Cyril, they always carried their mirrors with them. The Israelitish women probably did the same; and Dr. Shaw says, that looking-glasses are still part of the dress of Moorish women, who carry them constantly hung at their breasts. Assembling. Heb. assembling by troops. It is supposed that these women kept watch during the night. Among the ancients, women were generally employed as door-keepers.

1 Samuel 2:22 Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did to all Israel...

Proverbs 8:34 Blessed is the man that hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

Matthew 26:69 Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came to him, saying, You also were with Jesus of Galilee.

Luke 2:37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple...

John 18:16 But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known to the high priest...

1 Timothy 5:5 Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusts in God, and continues in supplications and prayers night and day.