Second Book of Chronicles 4

¹ He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten high.

² He made the Sea of cast metal, ten cubits from rim to rim, circular in shape and five cubits high; a cord thirty cubits long gave the measurement of its girth.

³ Under it and completely encircling it were animals shaped like oxen; they went round the Sea over a length of thirty cubits; the oxen were in two rows, of one and the same casting with the rest.

⁴ It rested on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, three facing east; on these, their hindquarters all turned inwards, stood the Sea.

⁵ It was a hand’s breadth in thickness, and its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup, like a flower. It could hold three thousand baths.

⁶ He made ten basins, arranging five on the right-hand side, five on the left-hand side, for washing the victim for the holocaust which was purified there; but the Sea was for the priests to wash in.

⁷ He made the ten golden lamp-stands in the way prescribed and placed them in the Hekal, five on the right and five on the left.

⁸ He made ten tables and placed them in the Hekal, five on the right and five on the left. He made a hundred golden sprinkling bowls.

⁹ He made the court of the priests[*a] and the great court with its gates and plated the gates with bronze.

¹⁰ He placed the Sea some distance from the right-hand side, to the south-east.

¹¹ Huram made the ash containers, the scoops and the sprinkling bowls. He finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the Temple of God:

¹² the two pillars; the two mouldings of the capitals surmounting the pillars; the two sets of filigree to cover the two mouldings of the capitals surmounting the pillars;

¹³ the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of filigree; the pomegranates of each set of filigree were in two rows;

¹⁴ the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands;

¹⁵ the one Sea and the twelve oxen beneath it;

¹⁶ the ash containers, the scoops, the forks, and all their accessories made by Huram-abi of burnished bronze for King Solomon, for the Temple of Yahweh.

¹⁷ The king made them by the process of sand casting, in the Jordan area between Succoth and Zeredah.

¹⁸ Solomon made all these articles in great quantities, no reckoning being made of the weight of bronze.

¹⁹ Solomon placed all the furnishings he had made in the Temple of God: the golden altar and the tables for the loaves of offering;

²⁰ the lamp-stands with their lamps to burn, as prescribed, in front of the Debir, of pure gold;

²¹ the floral work, the lamps, the extinguishers, of gold (and it was pure gold);

²² the knives, the sprinkling bowls, incense boats, of fine gold; the door of the Temple, the inner doors (for the Holy of Holies) and the Temple doors (for the Hekal), of gold.