2 Chronicles 4

¹ He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

² Then he made the cast metal sea. It was circular, ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.

³ Under it were figures of oxen encircling it, ten per cubit all the way around the sea. The oxen were cast in two rows when it was cast.

⁴ It stood on twelve oxen—three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea rested on top of them, and all their hindquarters were toward the center.

⁵ It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was made like the rim of a cup, shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.

⁶ He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the right side and five on the left. The things used for the burnt offerings were rinsed in them, but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

⁷ He made the ten gold lampstands according to the prescribed design and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left.

⁸ He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls.

⁹ He made the court of the priests and the great court, and doors for the court. He overlaid the doors with bronze.

¹⁰ He set the sea on the right side of the house, toward the southeast.

¹¹ Huram also made the pots, the shovels, and the sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he was doing for King Solomon in the house of God:

¹² the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two sets of network to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

¹³ the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network—two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

¹⁴ the stands and the basins on the stands;

¹⁵ the one sea and the twelve oxen under it;

¹⁶ the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the related articles that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.

¹⁷ The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

¹⁸ Solomon made all these articles in such great quantities that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

¹⁹ Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which the bread of the Presence was placed;

²⁰ the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn according to the prescribed manner in front of the inner sanctuary;

²¹ the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs—of gold, and of the purest gold;

²² the snuffers, the sprinkling bowls, the dishes, and the fire pans—of pure gold; and the entrance to the house, its inner doors to the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple—of gold.