Exodus 27:3

The vessels of the altar, for use in connexion with the sacrifices.

its pots … and its shovels cf., in the Temple, 1Ki 7:45, 2 Kings 25:14.

its ashes lit. its fat, i.e. the fat, which, when a sacrifice was burnt, ran down and mixed with the ashes: cf. Numbers 4:13; Leviticus 1:16; Leviticus 4:12; Leviticus 6:10 f. Not used of ordinary ashes. The shovelswould be for collecting and sweeping away (cf. the same root, Isaiah 28:17) the ashes.

basons lit. tossing-vessels, large bowls, used for tossing the blood in a volume against the sides of the altar: see on Exodus 24:6, and Exodus 29:16. Cf. Zechariah 9:15; Zechariah 14:20 (-bowls").

fleshhooks Exodus 38:3, Num 4:14, 1 Chronicles 28:17; 2 Chronicles 4:16 †.

firepans 1 Kings 7:50. Cf. the note on -snuffdishes," Exodus 25:38.