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     * the laver.
     # 30:18-21; 40:7,30-32; 1Ki 7:23-26,38; Ps 26:6; Zec 13:1; Joh 13:10|
     # Tit 3:5,6; Heb 9:10; 1Jo 3:7; Re 1:5|
     * 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 St. 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.  See 1; Sa 2:22.

     # Pr 8:34; Mt 26:69; Lu 2:37; Joh 18:16; 1Ti 5:5|