knops] As, Chap. 6. v. 18. oxen are named (2 Chron. 4. 3.) because the Hebrew word may import any figure; or because there were the shapes both of knops, and also of oxen or bull-heads cast thereon. ten in a cubit] In every cubit: three hundred in all; for it was thirty cubits in compasse. compassing the sea round about] 2 Chronicles 4:3. when it was cast] At the first casting of the vessell it self; they were not afterwards added.