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Furnishings for the Temple

Solomona also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.b

The Temple’s Furnishings

He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.a

Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7 1/2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.c

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He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubitsb high. It took a line of thirty cubitsc to measure around it.

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It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of figures that resembled oxen. There were about six oxen per footd all the way around, and they were cast as part of the basin.

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Below 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.

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The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them.

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The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center.

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The walls of the Sea were about three inchese thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a water lily blossom. It could hold about 16,500 gallonsf of water.

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It was a handbreadthe in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.f

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He also made ten smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings. He set five on the south side and five on the north. But the priests washed themselves in the Sea.

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He then made ten basins 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 were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.

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He then cast ten gold lampstands according to the specifications that had been given, and he put them in the Temple. Five were placed against the south wall, and five were placed against the north wall.

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

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He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the north wall. Then he molded 100 gold basins.

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

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He then built a courtyard for the priests, and also the large outer courtyard. He made doors for the courtyard entrances and overlaid them with bronze.

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He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze.

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The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.

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He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.

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Huram-abi also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls.
So at last Huram-abi completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for the Temple of God:

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And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls.
So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:

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the two pillars;
the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals;

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the 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;

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the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated the capitals on top of the pillars);

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the 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);

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the water carts holding the basins;

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the stands with their basins;

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the Sea and the twelve oxen under it;

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the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;

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the ash buckets, the shovels, the meat hooks, and all the related articles.
Huram-abi made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the LORD, just as King Solomon had directed.

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the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles.
All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of polished bronze.

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The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.g

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The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.g

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Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined.

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All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.

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Solomon also made all the furnishings for the Temple of God:
the gold altar;
the tables for the Bread of the Presence;

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Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God’s temple:
the golden altar;
the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;

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the lampstands and their lamps of solid gold, to burn in front of the Most Holy Place as prescribed;

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

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the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs — all of the purest gold;

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

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the lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners — all of solid gold;
the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, overlaid with gold.

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

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2 Chronicles 4

2 Chronicles 4