ten] Yet but one in the tabernacle, Exodus 30:18. Besides, that the sea (v. 23.) far exceeded in quantity the laver, in the temple there were ten other lavers, because the temple was bigger then the tabernacle, and had need of a greater quantitie of water: and God thereby would shew the increase of his goodnesse, as in the candlesticks (ver. 49.) tables (2 Chro. 4. 8.) and other things. lavers] Vessels to hold a good quantity of water, to wash their sacrifices therewith, 2 Chronicles 4:6. fourty baths] An hundred barrells. See verse 26.