2 Chronicles 4

Furnishings for the Temple

1Solomon#4:1a Or Huram-abi; Hebrew reads He. also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.#4:1b Hebrew 20 cubits [9.2 meters] long, 20 cubits wide, and 10 cubits [4.6 meters] high. 2Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7-1/2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.#4:2 Hebrew 10 cubits [4.6 meters] across . . . 5 cubits [2.3 meters] deep and 30 cubits [13.8 meters] in circumference. 3It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of figures that resembled oxen. There were about six oxen per foot#4:3 Or 20 oxen per meter; Hebrew reads 10 per cubit. all the way around, and they were cast as part of the basin.

4The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them. 5The walls of the Sea were about three inches#4:5a Hebrew a handbreadth [8 centimeters]. thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a water lily blossom. It could hold about 16,500 gallons#4:5b Hebrew 3,000 baths [63 kiloliters]. of water.

6He also made ten smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings. He set five on the south side and five on the north. But the priests washed themselves in the Sea.

7He then cast ten gold lampstands according to the specifications that had been given, and he put them in the Temple. Five were placed against the south wall, and five were placed against the north wall.

8He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the north wall. Then he molded 100 gold basins.

9He then built a courtyard for the priests, and also the large outer courtyard. He made doors for the courtyard entrances and overlaid them with bronze. 10The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.

11Huram-abi also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls.

So at last Huram-abi completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for the Temple of God:

12the two pillars;

the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals;

13the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated the capitals on top of the pillars);

14the water carts holding the basins;

15the Sea and the twelve oxen under it;

16the ash buckets, the shovels, the meat hooks, and all the related articles.

Huram-abi made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the Lord, just as King Solomon had directed. 17The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.#4:17 As in parallel text at 1 Kgs 7:46; Hebrew reads Zeredah. 18Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined.

19Solomon also made all the furnishings for the Temple of God:

the gold altar;

the tables for the Bread of the Presence;

20the lampstands and their lamps of solid gold, to burn in front of the Most Holy Place as prescribed;

21the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs—all of the purest gold;

22the lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners—all of solid gold;

the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, overlaid with gold.

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II Chronicles 4

Furnishings of the Temple

1Moreover he made #Ex. 27:1, 2; 2 Kin. 16:14; Ezek. 43:13, 16a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

2#Ex. 30:17–21; 1 Kin. 7:23–26Then he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. 3#1 Kin. 7:24–26And under it was the likeness of oxen encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The oxen were cast in two rows, when it was cast. 4It stood on twelve #1 Kin. 7:25oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward. 5It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained three thousand baths.

6He also made #1 Kin. 7:38, 40ten lavers, and put five on the right side and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as they offered for the burnt offering they would wash in them, but the Sea was for the #Ex. 30:19–21priests to wash in. 7#1 Kin. 7:49And he made ten lampstands of gold #Ex. 25:31; 1 Chr. 28:12, 19according to their design, and set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. 8#1 Kin. 7:48He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred #1 Chr. 28:17bowls of gold.

9Furthermore #1 Kin. 6:36he made the court of the priests, and the #2 Kin. 21:5great court and doors for the court; and he overlaid these doors with bronze. 10#1 Kin. 7:39He set the Sea on the right side, toward the southeast.

11Then #1 Kin. 7:40–51Huram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of God: 12the two pillars and #1 Kin. 7:41the bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the pillars; 13#1 Kin. 7:20four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on the pillars); 14he also made #1 Kin. 7:27, 43carts and the lavers on the carts; 15one Sea and twelve oxen under it; 16also the pots, the shovels, the forks—and all their articles #1 Kin. 7:45; 2 Chr. 2:13Huram his master craftsman made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.

17In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between Succoth and Zeredah. 18#1 Kin. 7:47And Solomon had all these articles made in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze was not determined.

19Thus #1 Kin. 7:48–50Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of God: the altar of gold and the tables on which was #Ex. 25:30the showbread; 20the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn #Ex. 27:20, 21in the prescribed manner in front of the inner sanctuary, 21with #Ex. 25:31the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold, of purest gold; 22the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the censers of pure gold. As for the entry of the sanctuary, its inner doors to the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the main hall of the temple, were gold.

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