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mark9950 · 12-23-2003, 04:01 PM

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But bronze tends to tarnish on extended contact with air, too.

Yes bronze tarnishes in about one week to ten days,I guess that all the slaves polished it up.

tracer · 01-05-2004, 10:35 AM

Okay. So, the fact that silver tarnishes was not an excuse to use it instead of bronze in making the decorations for Solomon's Temple and palace. And now, in blatant contradiction to 1 Kings 10:21, I just noticed this verse:

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"When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the LORD was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated --- the silver and gold and the furnishings -- and he placed them in the treasuries of the LORD's temple."
-- 1 Kings 7:51, NIV translation (emphasis mine)

Geez! It's like a different person wrote each chapter of 1 Kings, and none of them consulted each other.

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