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2 Chronicles 4


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DOUAI-RHEIMSNEW JERUSALEM
1 He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.1 He made a bronze altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.
2 He made the Sea of cast metal, ten cubits from rim to rim, circular in shape and five cubits high; a cordthirty cubits long gave the measurement of its girth.
3 Also 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.3 Under it and completely encircling it were things like oxen, ten to the cubit round the entire Sea; theoxen were in two rows, of one and the same casting with the rest.
4 And 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.4 It rested on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, three facing east; onthese, their hindquarters al turned inwards, stood the Sea.
5 And 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.5 It was a hand's breadth in thickness, and its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup-lily-shaped. It couldhold three thousand bat.
6 Now 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.6 He made ten basins, putting five on the right and five on the left, for washing in; the things to be offeredas burnt offerings were to be rinsed in these, but the Sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 He 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 mere to offer for holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.7 He made the ten golden lamp-stands according to the pattern and placed them in the Hekal, five on theright and five on the left.
8 And 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.8 He made ten tables which he set up in the Hekal, five on the right and five on the left. He also made ahundred golden sprinkling bowls.
9 Moreover 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.9 He made the court of the priests and the great court with its gates and plated the gates with bronze.
10 He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.10 The Sea he placed on the right-hand side of the Temple, to the south-east.
11 And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward the south.11 Huram made the ash containers, the scoops and the sprinkling bowls. Thus Huram completed al thework done for King Solomon for the Temple of God:
12 And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished all the king's work in the house of God:12 the two pillars; the mouldings of the capitals surmounting the two pil ars; the two sets of filigree tocover the two mouldings of the capitals surmounting the pil ars;
13 That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.13 the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of filigree -- two rows of pomegranates for each set offiligree;
14 And 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.14 the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands;
15 He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:15 the one Sea and the twelve oxen beneath it;
16 One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;16 the ash containers, scoops and forks. Al these utensils made by Huram-Abi for King Solomon for theTemple of Yahweh were of burnished bronze.
17 And 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.17 The King made them by the process of sand casting, in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth andZeredah.
18 In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay ground between Sochot and Saredatha.18 There was such an enormous quantity of them that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.
19 And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.19 Solomon made al the objects designed for the Temple of God, as wel as the golden altar and thetables for the loaves of permanent offering;
20 And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God, and the golden altar, and the tables, upon which were the leaves of proposition,20 the lamp-stands with their lamps to burn, as prescribed, in front of the Debir, of pure gold;
21 The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give light before the oracle, according to the manner.21 the floral work, the lamps, the tongs, of gold (and it was pure gold);
22 And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all were made of the finest gold.22 the snuffers, the sprinkling bowls, incense ladles and the pans, of real gold; and the entrance to theTemple, the inner doors (for the Holy of Holies) and the doors of the Temple itself, that is of the Hekal, were alsomade of gold.