1Solomon made a bronze altar 10 metres long and wide and 5 metres high.2He made a huge metal bowl for washing. Its shape was round. It measured 5 metres from rim to rim. It was 2.5 metres high. And it was 15 metres round.3Below the rim there was a circle of bull figures around the bowl. In every half a metre round the bowl there were ten bulls. The bulls were arranged in two rows. They were made as part of the bowl itself.4The bowl stood on 12 bulls. Three of them faced north. Three faced west. Three faced south. And three faced east. The bowl rested on top of them. Their rear ends were towards the centre.5The bowl was 8 centimetres thick. Its rim was like the rim of a cup. The rim was shaped like the bloom of a lily. The bowl held 72,000 litres of water.6Solomon made ten smaller bowls for washing. He placed five of them on the south side of the huge bowl. He placed the other five on the north side. The things used for the burnt offerings were rinsed in the smaller bowls. But the priests used the huge bowl for washing.7Solomon made ten gold lampstands. He followed the pattern the LORD had given him. He placed the lampstands in the temple. He put five of them on the south side. He put the other five on the north side.8He made ten tables. He placed them in the temple. He put five of them on the south side. He put the other five on the north side. He also made 100 gold sprinkling bowls.9He made the courtyard of the priests. He also made the large courtyard. He made doors for it. He covered the doors with bronze.10He placed the huge bowl on the south side of the courtyard. He put it at the southeast corner.11And Huram also made the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he had started for King Solomon. Here’s what he made for God’s temple.12He made the two pillars. He made the two tops for the pillars. The tops were shaped like bowls. He made the two sets of chains that were linked together. They decorated the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars.13He made the 400 pomegranates for the two sets of chains. There were two rows of pomegranates for each chain. They decorated the bowl-shaped tops of the pillars.14He made the stands and their bowls.15He made the huge bowl. He made the 12 bulls that were under it.16He made the pots, shovels and meat forks. He also made all the things used with them. Huram-Abi made all these objects for King Solomon for the LORD’s temple. He made them out of bronze. Then he polished them.17The king had them made in clay moulds. It was done on the plains of the River Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.18Solomon made huge numbers of these things. There were too many of them to weigh. In fact, it was impossible to add up the weight of all the bronze.19Solomon also made all the objects that were in God’s temple. He made the golden altar. He made the tables for the holy bread.20He made the pure gold lampstands and their lamps. The lamps burned in front of the Most Holy Room, just as the law required.21He made the gold flowers. He made the gold lamps and tongs. They were made out of solid gold.22He made the wick cutters, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and shallow cups for burning incense. All of them were made out of pure gold. He made the gold doors of the temple. They were the inner doors to the Most Holy Room and the doors of the main hall.
2 Chronicles 4
English Standard Version
The Temple’s Furnishings
1He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits[1] long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. (1Ki 8:64; 2Ki 16:14; 2Ch 7:7; 2Ch 8:12; 2Ch 15:8; Eze 43:13)2Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. (1Ki 7:23)3Under it were figures of gourds,[2] for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.4It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.5Its thickness was a handbreadth.[3] And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.[4] (1Ki 7:26)6He also made ten basins in which to wash, and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in. (1Ki 7:38)7And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. (Ex 25:31; Ex 27:20; 1Ki 7:49; 2Ch 4:20)8He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold. (1Ki 7:48; 2Ch 4:19)9He made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze. (1Ki 6:36; 2Ki 21:5; 2Ch 6:13)10And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house. (1Ki 7:39)11Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of God: (1Ki 7:13; 1Ki 7:40)12the two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; (1Ki 7:41)13and the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. (1Ki 7:20)14He made the stands also, and the basins on the stands, (2Ch 4:6)15and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it.16The pots, the shovels, the forks, and all the equipment for these Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord. (1Ki 7:14; 1Ch 28:17; 2Ch 2:13; 2Ch 4:11)17In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.[5]18Solomon made all these things in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze was not sought. (1Ki 7:47)19So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence, (2Ch 4:8)20the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed; (2Ch 4:7)21the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold;22the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold, and the sockets[6] of the temple, for the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.