2 Chronicles 4
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The furnishings for the temple
(1 Kings 7.23-51)
1Solomon had a bronze altar made that was nine metres square and four and a half metres high.#Ex 27.1,2. 2He also gave orders to make a large metal bowl called the Sea. It was four and a half metres across, just over two metres deep, and thirteen and a half metres around. 3Its outer edge was decorated with two rows of carvings of bulls, ten bulls to about every forty-five centimetres, all made from the same piece of metal as the bowl. 4The bowl itself sat on top of twelve bronze bulls, with three bulls facing outwards in each of four directions. 5The sides of the bowl were seventy-five millimetres thick, and its rim was in the shape of a cup that curved outwards like flower petals. The bowl held about sixty thousand litres.
6He also made ten small bowls and put five on each side of the large bowl. The small bowls were used to wash the animals that were burnt on the altar as sacrifices, and the priests used the water in the large bowl to wash their hands.#Ex 30.17-21.
7Ten gold lampstands were also made according to the plans. Solomon placed these lampstands inside the temple, five on each side of the main room.#Ex 25.31-40. 8He also made ten tables and placed them in the main room, five on each side. And he made a hundred small gold sprinkling bowls.#Ex 25.23-30.
9Solomon gave orders to build two courtyards: a smaller one that only priests could use and a larger one. The doors to these courtyards were covered with bronze. 10The large bowl called the Sea was placed near the south-east corner of the temple.
11Huram made shovels, sprinkling bowls, and pans for hot ashes. Here is a list of the other furnishings he made for God's temple: 12two columns, two bowl-shaped caps for the tops of these columns, two chain designs on the caps, 13four hundred pomegranates#4.13 pomegranates: See the note at 3.16. for the chain designs, 14the stands and the small bowls, 15the large bowl and the twelve bulls that held it up, 16pans for hot ashes, as well as shovels and meat forks.
Huram made all these things out of polished bronze 17by pouring melted bronze into the clay moulds he had set up near the River Jordan, between Succoth and Zeredah.
18There were so many bronze furnishings that no one ever knew how much bronze it took to make them.
19Solomon also gave orders to make the following temple furnishings out of gold: the altar, the tables that held the sacred loaves of bread,#4.19 sacred loaves of bread: This bread was offered to the LORD and was a symbol of the LORD's presence in the temple. It was put out on special tables, and was replaced with fresh bread every week (see Leviticus 24.5-9). 20the lampstands and the lamps that burnt in front of the most holy place, 21flower designs, lamps and tongs, 22lamp snuffers, small sprinkling bowls, ladles, fire pans, and the doors to the most holy place and the main room of the temple.
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2 Paralipomenon 4
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1He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.
2Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass. It was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
3And under it there was the likeness of oxen; and certain engravings on the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the sea, as it were with two rows.
4And the oxen were cast. And the sea itself was set upon the twelve oxen: three of which looked toward the north: and other three toward the west: and other three toward the south: and the other three that remained toward the east. And the sea stood upon them; and the hinder parts of the oxen were inward under the sea.
5Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand measures.
6He made also ten lavers: and he see five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them all such things as they were to offer for holocausts. But the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the form which they were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
8Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.
9He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.
10And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward the south.
11And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished all the king's work in the house of God.
12That is to say: the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels:
13And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so that two rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the pommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.
14He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:
15One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea:
16And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls. All the vessels did Hiram his father make for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the finest brass.
17In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay ground between Sochot and Saredatha.
18And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.
19And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God, and the golden altar, and the tables, upon which were the loaves of proposition;
20The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give light before the oracle, according to the manner.
21And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs. All were made of the finest gold.
22The vessels also for the perfumes, and the censers, and the bowls, and the mortars, of pure gold. And he graved the doors of the inner temple, that is, for the Holy of Holies. And the doors of the temple without were of gold. And thus all the work was finished which Solomon made in the house of the Lord.
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