¹⁶He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he put between the little chains.

¹⁷These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.

Chapter 4

He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.

²Also 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.

³And 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.

⁴And 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.

⁵Now 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.

⁶He made also ten lavers: and he set five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them all such things as they were to offer for holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

⁷And 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.

⁸Moreover 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.

⁹He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.

¹⁰And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward the south.

¹¹And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished all the king’s work the house of God:

¹²That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.

¹³And 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.

¹⁴He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:

¹⁵One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

¹⁶And 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.

¹⁷In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay ground between Sochot and Saredatha.

¹⁸And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.

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