2 Chronicles 4

The Bronze and the Gold of the House

1He made a bronze altar, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. 2He made the Sea of cast metal, circular, ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high, with a line of thirty cubits to encircle it. 3Beneath it, running right round it, were figures of oxen, ten to a cubit, ringing the Sea; the oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece with it. 4It rested on twelve oxen: three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east, with the Sea above them and all their hindquarters turned inward. 5It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup, like a lily in bloom. Its capacity was three thousand baths. 6He made ten basins, placing five on the right and five on the left, for rinsing; in them they washed what was used for the burnt offering, while the Sea was for the priests to wash in. 7He made the ten golden lampstands to the pattern prescribed for them, and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. 8Ten tables he made and set in the temple, five to the right and five to the left; and a hundred bowls of gold. 9He made the court of the priests and the great courtyard, with doors for the courtyard, and he plated their doors with bronze. 10As for the Sea, it was placed at the right-hand corner, toward the east, facing south. 11Huram made the pots, the shovels and the bowls. So Huram completed the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God: 12the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on the tops of the pillars; the two lattices to cover the two bowls of the capitals on the tops of the pillars; 13the four hundred pomegranates for the two lattices, two rows of pomegranates to each lattice, covering the two bowls of the capitals that faced out from the pillars. 14He made the stands as well, and the basins upon the stands; 15one Sea, with the twelve oxen that carried it; 16the pots, the shovels, the forks and all their equipment. Huram his father made these for King Solomon, for the house of Yahweh, of burnished bronze. 17The king had them cast in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay beds between Succoth and Zeredah. 18Solomon made all these objects in such quantity that the weight of the bronze was never worked out. 19Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which the bread of the Presence was laid; 20the lampstands and their lamps, of refined gold, to burn as prescribed in front of the inner sanctuary; 21the flowers, the lamps and the tongs, of gold — gold of the purest kind; 22the snuffers, bowls, ladles and censers, all of refined gold; and at the doorway of the house, the inner doors that open on the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the house that open on the hall — of gold.