2 Chronicles 4
1 Solomon made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
He made also an altar of copper, twenty cubits being its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.
2 He made a “Sea” from cast metal, ten cubits in diameter, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
He made also the molten sea, being ten cubits from the one brim to the other, rounded all about, and it was five cubits in height: and a line of thirty cubits did encompass it round about.
3 Below it were ornamental bulls all around it, ten per cubit. They were in two rows when it was all cast.
And likenesses of oxen were under it, encompassing it all round about, ten in a cubit, encircling the sea round about: the oxen were in two rows [and were] cast [with it], when it was cast.
4 The Sea was supported by twelve statues of bulls three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea was placed on them, with their rears toward the center.
It was standing upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was resting above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
5 It was as thick as the width of a hand, and its edge was like the flared edge of a cup or a lily flower. It held three thousand baths.
And its thickness was a hand's breadth, and its brim like the brim of a cup, with lily-buds; and it could hold and contain three thousand baths.
6 He also made ten basins on carts for washing. He placed five on the south side, and five on the north. They were used for cleaning what was used in burnt offerings, but the Sea was used by the priests for washing.
He made also ten lavers; and he placed five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: what belonged to the burnt-offering they rinsed off at them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 He made ten gold lampstands as had been specified, and placed them in the Temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their prescribed manner: and he placed [them] in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left.
8 In addition he made ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold basins.
He made also ten tables, and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made a hundred bowls of gold.
9 Solomon also built a courtyard of the priests, and the large courtyard and doors for the courtyard, and he covered the doors with bronze.
And he made the court of the priests, and the great out-court, and doors for the out-court, and their doors he overlaid with copper.
10 He placed the Sea on the south side, by the southeast corner.
And the sea he placed on the right side toward the east, opposite to the south.
11 Hiram also made the pots, shovels, and basins. Hiram completed the work that he had been doing for King Solomon on the Temple of God:
And Churam made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. And Churam made an end of doing the work which he made for king Solomon in the house of God:
12 the two columns; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the columns; the two sets of network that covered both bowls of the capitals on top of the columns;
The two pillars, and the bowls, and the capitals on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the bowl-shaped capitals which were on the top of the pillars;
13 the four hundred ornamental pomegranates for the two sets of network—two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the columns;
And the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals which were upon the front of the pillars.
14 the water carts and the basins on the water carts;
The bases also did he make, and the lavers made he upon the bases.
15 the Sea and the twelve bull statues that supported it; the pots, shovels, forks, and everything else.
The one sea, and the twelve oxen under it,
16 All the metalwork Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord was of polished bronze.
And the pots also, and the shovels, and the forks, and all their instruments, did Churam-Abiv make for king Solomon for the house of the Lord, of polished copper.
17 The king cast them in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah.
In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay-ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
18 Solomon made so many of these things that the weight of the bronze used could not be measured.
And Solomon made all these vessels in very great abundance; for the weight of the copper was not inquired into.
19 Solomon also made everything used in the Temple of God: the golden altar; the tables where the Bread of the Presence was displayed;
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained to the house of God; and the altar of gold also, and the tables whereon the show-bread [was set];
20 the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps that were to burn in front of the Most Holy Place as specified;
And the candlesticks with their lamps, to light them after the prescribed manner before the debir, of pure gold.
21 the decorative flowers, lamps, and tongs—all made of solid gold;
And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, were of gold, the purest of gold;
22 the wick trimmers, basins, dishes and censers—all made of gold; and the doors of the Temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the main hall—all covered with gold.
And the knives, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers were of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
