The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Chronicles 04
1 Then he made an altar of bronze,
twenty cubits† long, twenty cubits wide,
and ten cubits high.
2 Also he made the molten sea‡ of ten
cubits from brim to brim. It was round,
five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.
3 Under it was the likeness of oxen,
which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows,
cast when it was cast.
4 It stood on twelve oxen, three looking
toward the north, three looking toward
the west, three looking toward the south,
and three looking toward the east; and the
sea was set on them above, and all their
hind quarters were inward.
5 It was a handbreadth thick. Its brim
was made like the brim of a cup, like the
flower of a lily. It received and held three
thousand baths.§
6 He alsomade tenbasins, andputfive on
the right hand and five on the left, to wash
in them. The things that belonged to the
burnt offering were washed in them, but
the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them;
and he set them in the temple, five on the
right hand and five on the left.
8 He made also ten tables, and placed
them in the temple, five on the right side
and five on the left. He made one hundred
basins of gold.
9 Furthermore he made the court of the
priests, the great court, and doors for
the court, and overlaid their doors with
bronze.
10 He set the sea on the right side of the
house eastward, toward the south.
11 Hurammade the pots,the shovels, and
the basins. So Huram finished doing the work that
he did for King Solomon in God’s house:
12 the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars,
the two networks to cover the two bowls
of the capitals that were on the top of the
pillars,
13 and the four hundred pomegranates
for the two networks—two rows of
pomegranates for each network, to cover
the two bowls of the capitals that were on
the pillars.
14 He also made the bases, and he made
the basins on the bases—
15 one sea, and the twelve oxen under it.
16 Huram-abi† also made the pots, the
shovels, the forks, and all its vessels for
King Solomon, for Yahweh’s house, of
bright bronze.
17 The king cast them in the plain of the
Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels
in great abundance, so that the weight of
the bronze could not be determined.
19 Solomon made all the vessels that
were in God’s house: the golden altar, the
tables with the show bread on them,
20 and the lamp stands with their lamps
to burn according to the ordinance before
the inner sanctuary, of pure gold;
21 and the flowers, the lamps, and the
tongs of gold that was purest gold;
22 and the snuffers, the basins, the
spoons, and the fire pans of pure gold. As
for the entry of the house, its inner doors
for the most holy place and the doors ofthe
main hall of the temple were of gold.