2 Chronicles 4
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1 He made a bronze altar, 30 feet#tn Heb “twenty cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the length would have been 30 feet (9 m). long, 30 feet#tn Heb “twenty cubits.” wide, and 15 feet#tn Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 15 feet (4.5 m). high. 2 He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.”#tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”sn The large bronze basin known as “The Sea” was mounted on twelve bronze bulls and contained water for the priests to bathe themselves (see v. 6; cf. Exod 30:17-21). It measured 15 feet#tn Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the diameter would have been 15 feet (4.5 m). from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet#tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 7.5 feet (2.25 m). high. Its circumference was 45 feet.#tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.” 3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches#tn Heb “ten every cubit.” all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.” 4 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.#tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.” 5 It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.#tn Heb “3,000 baths” (note that the capacity is given in 1 Kings 7:26 as “2,000 baths”). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so 3,000 baths was a quantity of about 18,000 gallons (66,000 liters). 6 He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.”
7 He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. 8 He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls. 9 He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors;#tn Heb “and the doors for the enclosure.” he plated their doors with bronze. 10 He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.
11 Huram Abi#tn Heb “Huram,” but here this refers to Huram Abi (2 Chr 2:13). The complete name has been used in the translation to avoid possible confusion with King Huram of Tyre. made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon.#tn Heb “Huram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of God.” 12 He made#tn The words “he made” are added for stylistic reasons. the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, 13 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar), 14 the ten#tc The Hebrew text has עָשָׂה (’asah, “he made”), which is probably a corruption of עֶשֶׂר (’eser, “ten”; see 1 Kgs 7:43). movable stands with their ten#tc The Hebrew text has עָשָׂה (’asah, “he made”), which is probably a corruption of עֲשָׂרָה (’asarah, “ten”; see 1 Kgs 7:43). basins, 15 the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath, 16 and the pots, shovels, and meat forks.#tc Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45. All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple#tn Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the Lord.” were made from polished bronze. 17 The king had them cast in earthen foundries#tn Or perhaps, “molds.” in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. 18 Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze.#tn Heb “Solomon made all these items in great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”
19 Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence#tn Heb “the bread of the face/presence.”sn This bread offered to God was viewed as a perpetual offering to God. See Lev 24:5-9. was kept, 20 the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary, 21 the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, 22 the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
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2 Chronicles 4
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1And hee made an altar of brasse twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and ten cubites hie. 2And he made a molten Sea of ten cubites from brim to brim, rounde in compasse, and fiue cubites hie: and a line of thirtie cubites did compasse it about. 3And vnder it was ye facion of oxen, which did compasse it rounde about, tenne in a cubite compassing the Sea about: two rowes of oxen were cast when it was molten. 4It stoode vpon twelue oxen: three looked toward the North, and three looked towarde the West, and three looked towarde the South, and three looked towarde the East, and the Sea stoode about vpon them, and all their hinder parts were inwarde. 5And the thickenesse thereof was an hande breadth, and the brim thereof was like the worke of the brim of a cuppe with floures of lilies: it conteined three thousand baths. 6He made also ten caldrons, and put fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left, to wash in them, and to clense in them that which apperteined to the burnt offrings: but the Sea was for the Priests to wash in. 7And he made ten candlestickes of golde (according to their forme) and put them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left. 8And he made ten tables, and put them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left: and he made an hundreth basens of golde. 9And he made the court of the Priests, and the great court and doores for the court, and ouerlayd the doores thereof with brasse. 10And he set the Sea on the right side Eastward toward the South. 11And Huram made pottes and besoms and basens, and Huram finished the worke that hee shoulde make for King Salomon for the house of God, 12To wit, two pillars, and the bowles and the chapiters on the top of ye two pillars, and two grates to couer the two bowles of the chapiters which were vpon the toppe of the pillars: 13And foure hundreth pomegranates for the two grates, two rowes of pomegranates for euery grate to couer the two bowles of the chapiters, that were vpon the pillars. 14He made also bases, and made caldrons vpon the bases: 15And a Sea, and twelue bulles vnder it: 16Pottes also and besomes, and fleshhookes, and all these vessels made Huram his father, to King Salomon for the house of the Lord, of shining brasse. 17In the playne of Iorden did the King cast them in clay betweene Succoth and Zeredathah. 18And Salomon made al these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of brasse could not be rekoned. 19And Salomon made al the vessels that were for the house of God: the golden altar also and the tables, whereon the shewbread stoode. 20Moreouer the candlestickes, with their lampes to burne them after the maner, before the oracle, of pure golde. 21And the floures and the lampes, and the snuffers of gold, which was fine golde. 22And the hookes, and the basens, and the spoones, and the ashpans of pure golde: the entrie also of the house and doores thereof within, euen of the most holy place: and the doores of the house, to wit, of the Temple were of golde.
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