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2 Chronicles 4
The Temple Furnishings
41He made a bronze altar thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and fifteen feet high.
2He also made the sea of cast metal. It was round and fifteen feet from rim to rim. It was seven and a half feet high and forty-five feet in circumference. 3Under the rim, figurines of cattle[] completely encircled it, one every two inches, all the way around the sea. These cattle were in two rows, cast as one piece with the sea. 4The sea stood on twelve cattle, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center. 5The sea was three inches thick.[] Its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held eighteen thousand gallons.[]
6He also made ten basins for washing and put five on the south side and five on the north. The pieces of the burnt offering were washed in the basins, but the priests washed in the sea.
7He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications that had been given for them, and he set them in the outer room of the temple building, five on the south side and five on the north.
8He made ten tables and placed them in the outer room of the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made one hundred gold sprinkling bowls.
9He also made the courtyard of the priests and the great enclosure,[] and he made doors for the enclosure and overlaid them with bronze. 10He set the sea on the south side of the temple building near its southeast corner.
So Huram finished the work that he carried out for King Solomon for God's house: 12the two pillars, the two globe-shaped capitals on top of the pillars, the two latticeworks to cover the two globe-shaped capitals on top of the pillars, 13and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks (two rows of pomegranates for each latticework to cover the two globe-shaped capitals that were on the pillars). 14He also made the carts, and he made the basins on the carts, 15one sea, and the twelve cattle under it. 16Huram Abi also made the pots, the shovels, the meat hooks,[] and all the vessels of burnished bronze for King Solomon, for the House of the Lord.
17The king cast them in clay molds, in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredatha.[] 18Solomon made all these vessels in such great quantity that the weight of the bronze was not determined.
19Solomon made all the furnishings that were in God's house: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was arranged, 20and the lampstands with their lamps, which were to burn in front of the inner sanctuary according to the regulations. He made them of pure gold.[] 21He also made the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of the purest gold,[] 22and the snuffers, the sprinkling bowls, the small dishes, and the fire pans[] of pure gold. For the entrances into the sanctuary, he made the golden inner doors for the Most Holy Place and the golden doors for the front room of the sanctuary.
Footnotes
- 4:3 The parallel text in 1 Kings 7:24 reads gourds rather than cattle.
- 4:5 Literally a handbreadth
- 4:5 Literally three thousand baths. In 1 Kings 7:26, it reads two thousand baths. Perhaps the two passages were using different standards for the bath or rounding off.
- 4:9 Not the usual Hebrew word for courtyard, but a special word 'azarah
- 4:11 He is called Hiram in 1 Kings.
- 4:16 Or forks
- 4:17 Also called Zarethan in 1 Kings 7:46
- 4:20 Literally closed gold, also in verse 22. Most translations translate this as pure gold or solid gold, but perhaps it means gold plate in some contexts. The precise distinctions between the various terms for pure gold or solid gold are uncertain.
- 4:21 Literally perfection of gold
- 4:22 The precise identification of some of these vessels and utensils is uncertain.