And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast. (2 Chronicles 4:3)
Verses 2-5 agree almost verbatim with 1 Kings 7:23-26; however, where the former mentions two rows of “oxen” the latter reads “knops,” probably meaning gourds. The Hebrew word for “oxen,”beqarim, and “gourds,”peqa‘im, are somewhat similar and may have been confused. Many commentators believe that the text of Chronicles should read as it does in Kings.