2 Chronicles 4
1 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
2 He made the cast-metal sea, round, ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.
3 Below it, all around, were figures of oxen encircling it, ten per cubit around the sea; the oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece with it.
4 It stood on twelve oxen: three facing north, three west, three south, and three east. The sea rested on them, and all their hindquarters faced inward.
5 It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.
6 He made ten basins and placed five on the right and five on the left, to wash in them what was used for the burnt offering. But the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 He made ten gold lampstands according to their prescribed design and placed them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.
8 He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made a hundred gold bowls.
9 He made the priests’ courtyard and the great courtyard, with doors for the courtyard, and overlaid their doors with bronze.
10 He placed the sea on the right side, toward the east, facing south.
11 Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. Thus Huram finished the work he was doing for King Solomon in the house of God.
12 The two pillars, the globes, and the two capitals at the tops of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two globes of the capitals at the tops of the pillars;
13 the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two globes of the capitals on the pillars;
14 the stands he made and the basins on the stands;
15 the one sea and the twelve oxen beneath it;
16 the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all their utensils. Huram-Abi made all these things for King Solomon, for the house of the LORD, from burnished bronze.
17 The king had them cast in the plain of the Jordan, in clay ground, between Succoth and Zeredah.
18 Solomon made all these utensils in great abundance, so that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
19 Solomon also made all the utensils for the house of God: the golden altar and the tables on which the bread of the Presence was placed;
20 the lampstands and their lamps, to burn before the inner sanctuary according to the prescribed design, of pure gold;
21 the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold, of the purest gold;
22 the knives, the bowls, the cups, and the firepans, of pure gold; and the entrance to the house, with its inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the house leading to the temple, of gold.
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