2 Chronicles 4

The Temple’s Furnishings

4:2–6,10–5:1pp—1Ki 7:23–26,38–51

4He made a bronze altar^q twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.^{a 2}He made the Sea^r of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits^b high. It took a line of thirty cubits^c to measure around it. ³Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit.^d The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

⁴The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east.^s The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. ⁵It was a handbreadth^e in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.^f

⁶He then made ten basins^t for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings^u were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.

⁷He made ten gold lampstands^v according to the specifications^w for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

⁸He made ten tables^x and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls.^y

⁹He made the courtyard^z of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze. ¹⁰He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.

¹¹And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls.

So Huram finished^a the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:

¹²the two pillars;

the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

¹³the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);

¹⁴the stands^b with their basins;

¹⁵the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;

¹⁶the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles.

All the objects that Huram-Abi^c made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of polished bronze. ¹⁷The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth^d and Zarethan.^{g 18}All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze^e could not be calculated.

¹⁹Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God’s temple:

the golden altar;

the tables^f on which was the bread of the Presence;

²⁰the lampstands^g of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

²¹the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);

²²the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes^h and censers;ⁱ and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.