2 Chronicles 4

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 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 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 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 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 the ten golden lamp-stands according to the pattern and placed them in the Hekal, five on theright 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 He made the court of the priests and the great court with its gates and plated the gates with bronze.

¹⁰ The Sea he placed on the right-hand side of the Temple, to the south-east.

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 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 the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of filigree -- two rows of pomegranates for each set offiligree;

¹⁴ the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands;

¹⁵ the one Sea and the twelve oxen beneath it;

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 The King made them by the process of sand casting, in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth andZeredah.

¹⁸ There was such an enormous quantity of them that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.

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 the lamp-stands with their lamps to burn, as prescribed, in front of the Debir, of pure gold;

²¹ the floral work, the lamps, the tongs, of gold (and it was pure 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.