2 Chronicles 3:15–4:18

THE BRONZE PILLARS

¹⁵In front of the temple^b he made two pillars, each 27 feet^A high. The capital on top of each was 7½ feet high. ¹⁶He had made chainwork in the inner sanctuary and also put it on top of the pillars.^c He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork. ¹⁷Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the right and one on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin^B and the one on the left Boaz.^C

THE ALTAR AND BASINS

4He made a bronze altar^d 30 feet^D long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

²Then he made the cast metal basin,^Fe 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet^G high and 45 feet^H in circumference. ³The likeness of oxen was below it, completely encircling it, ten every half yard,^J completely surrounding the basin. The oxen were cast in two rows when the basin was cast. ⁴It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The basin was on top of them and all their hindquarters were toward the center. ⁵The basin was three inches^K thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or a lily blossom. It could hold eleven thousand gallons.

⁶He made ten basins for washing and he put five on the right and five on the left.^f The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them,^g but the basin was used by the priests for washing.

THE LAMPSTANDS, TABLES, AND COURTS

⁷He made the ten gold lampstands according to their specifications and put them in the sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left.^{h 8}He made ten tables and placed them in the sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left.ⁱ He also made a hundred gold bowls.

⁹He made the courtyard^j of the priests and the large court, and doors for the court. He overlaid the doors with bronze. ¹⁰He put the basin on the right side, toward the southeast.^{k 11}Then Huram^l made^m the pots, the shovels, and the bowls.

COMPLETION OF THE BRONZE FURNISHINGS

So Huram finished doing the work that he was doing for King Solomon in God’s temple: ¹²two pillars; the bowls and the capitals on top of the two pillars; the two gratings for covering both bowls of the capitals that were on top of the pillars; ¹³the four hundred pomegranates for the two gratings (two rows of pomegranates for each grating covering both capitals’ bowls on top of the pillarsⁿ). ¹⁴He also made the water carts^No and the basins on the water carts. ¹⁵The one basin and the twelve oxen underneath it, ¹⁶the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all their utensils—Huram-abi^Ap made them for King Solomon for the Lord’s temple. All these were made of polished bronze. ¹⁷The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zeredah. ¹⁸Solomon made all these utensils in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze was not determined.