1 Kings 7:40–51

Summary List of Temple Furnishings

⁴⁰Huram also made pots, shovels, and bowls. He completed all his work for King Solomon for the Lord’s Temple. This is what he made:

⁴¹The two columns;

The two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the columns;

The design of interwoven chains on each capital;

⁴²The 400 bronze pomegranates, in two rows of a hundred each round the design on each capital;

⁴³The ten carts;

The ten basins;

⁴⁴The tank;

The twelve bulls supporting the tank;

⁴⁵The pots, shovels, and bowls.

All this equipment for the Temple, which Huram made for King Solomon, was of polished bronze. ⁴⁶The king had it all made in the foundry between Sukkoth and Zarethan, in the Jordan Valley. ⁴⁷Solomon did not have these bronze objects weighed, because there were too many of them, and so their weight was never determined.

^48*Solomon also had gold furnishings made for the Temple: the altar, the table for the bread offered to God, ^49*the ten lamp-stands that stood in front of the Most Holy Place, five on the south side and five on the north; the flowers, lamps, and tongs; ⁵⁰the cups, lamp snuffers, bowls, dishes for incense, and the pans used for carrying live coals; and the hinges for the doors of the Most Holy Place and of the outer doors of the Temple. All these furnishings were made of gold.

^51*When King Solomon finished all the work on the Temple, he placed in the temple storerooms all the things that his father David had dedicated to the Lord—the silver, gold, and other articles.