1 Kings 7:23–51

^23aAnd he made the sea of ^bcast metal ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and ¹thirty cubits in its circumference.

²⁴Now under its brim ^agourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, ^bentirely encircling the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast with the Sea when it was cast.

^25aIt stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.

²⁶And it was a ¹handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, as a lily blossom; it could hold ²two thousand baths.

²⁷Then ^ahe made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits.

²⁸Now this was the workmanship of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the ¹frames,

²⁹and on the borders which were between the ¹frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ²frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

³⁰Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the laver were cast supports with wreaths at each side.

³¹And its opening inside the capital at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the workmanship of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round.

³²And the four wheels were underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

³³Now the workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.

³⁴Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports were part of the stand itself.

³⁵And on the top of the stand there was a circular form half a ¹cubit high, and on the top of the stand its ²stays and its borders were part of it.

³⁶And he engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths all around.

^37aHe made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form.

^38aHe also made ten lavers of bronze, one laver held forty baths; each laver was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one laver.

³⁹Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea of cast metal on the right side of the house eastward toward the south.

⁴⁰And Hiram made the lavers and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram completed doing all the work that he did for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh:

⁴¹the two pillars and the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the ^atwo pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars,

⁴²and the ^afour hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars;

⁴³and the ten stands with the ten lavers on the stands;

⁴⁴and ^athe one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea;

⁴⁵and ^athe pots and the shovels and the bowls; and all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh were of polished bronze.

^46aOn the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between ^bSuccoth and ^cZarethan.

⁴⁷And Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; ^athe weight of the bronze could not be found out.

⁴⁸Solomon also made all the furniture which was in the house of Yahweh: ^athe golden altar and the golden table on which was the ^bbread of the Presence;

⁴⁹and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and ^athe flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold;

⁵⁰and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the ^afirepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the Holy of Holies, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the nave, of gold.

^51aThus all the work that King Solomon did in the house of Yahweh was finished. And ^bSolomon brought in the things set apart as holy by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.