Chapter 4

H¹e made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. ²He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference. ³Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea. ⁴The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center. ⁵It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.

H⁶e also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing. ⁷He made ten gold lampstands according to their specifications and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. ⁸Additionally, 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 bowls.

H⁹e made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze. ¹⁰He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.

A¹¹dditionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. ¹²the two pillars; ¹³the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars); ¹⁴the stands; ¹⁵the Sea; ¹⁶and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles.

¹⁷All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah. ¹⁸Solomon made all these articles in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

S¹⁹olomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: ²⁰the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed; ²¹the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold— of purest gold; ²²the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of pure gold;