SEVENS IN 1KINGS POOL

Per a comment elsewhere that “pi is three” in 1Kings 7:23 (“Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completely.” NRSV) If you will read a few more verses, you will find that the author describes a sort of brim or rim that would seem to be important. The “sea” (pool) has a thickness, a handbreadth. So the diameter could possibly be an outside measurement and the circumference an inside measurement and therefore correct. I would not assume that the ancients did not know how to calculate a circumference. The outside dimensions of the pool in ascending order, 5, 10, and 31 (rounded) yield factors of 7 x 70 x 12 with application of Sower’s numbers – 70×7 and 12 being special numbers in the Bible. So maybe the builders took great care to make the dimensions exactly right – perfection in their view.
Using “30, 60, 100” in the Sower’s Parable (Mark 4):
30 x 5 = 150
60 x 10 = 600
100 x 31 = 3,100
Sum of products = 3850; factor of 70
Using “100, 60, 30” in the Sower’s Parable (Matthew 13)
100 x 5 = 500
60 x 10 = 600
30 x 31 = 930
Sum of products = 2030; factor of 70
Sum of sums
3850 + 2030 = 5880 = 70 x 7 x 12
This is my ninth example of 70 x 7
Now with this ninth instance of my discovering a “seventy times seven” in the Bible with Sower’s Parables numbers (see sidebar "Sower's Sevens"), I have to ask, what are the odds against gaining nine instances of “seventy times seven”? We can readily see that the odds of a factor of 7 x 7 are 1 in 49. The probability against nine instances of this is 1 in 49 to the ninth power, or 1 in 1,628,413,597,910,449. That is approximately 1 in 1.6 quadrillion.
Whether the ancients had the technology to make such a large pool (15 feet across) by pouring molten metal?? is another question.