1 Kings 7:27–37

THE BRONZE WATER CARTS

²⁷Then he made ten bronze water carts.^Ml Each water cart was 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4½ feet^N high. ²⁸This was the design of the carts: They had frames; the frames were between the cross-pieces, ²⁹and on the frames between the cross-pieces were lions, oxen, and cherubim.^m On the cross-pieces there was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging^O work. ³⁰Each cartⁿ had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Underneath the four corners of the basin were cast supports, each next to a wreath. ³¹And the water cart’s opening inside the crown on top was eighteen inches^P wide. The opening was round, made as a pedestal twenty-seven inches^Q wide. On it were carvings, but their frames were square, not round. ³²There were four wheels under the frames, and the wheel axles were part of the water cart; each wheel was twenty-seven inches^R tall. ³³The wheels’ design was similar to that of chariot wheels: their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal. ³⁴Four supports were at the four corners of each water cart; each support was one piece with the water cart. ³⁵At the top of the cart was a band nine inches^A high encircling it; also, at the top of the cart, its braces and its frames were one piece with it. ³⁶He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees^o on the plates of its braces and on its frames, wherever each had space, with encircling wreaths. ³⁷In this way he made the ten water carts using the same casting, dimensions, and shape for all of them.