2 Chronicles 4:11-18·~1 min

Completion of the Bronze Works

Huram’s bronze work is listed in compressed form, moving from pots and bowls to pillars, pomegranates, stands, the Sea, and other articles. The catalogue gathers many pieces under one craftsman’s hand.

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.

The bronze articles are identified as polished work made for Solomon in the Jordan plain, and their quantity is so great that the bronze cannot be weighed. Craft and abundance come together at the close.

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.

Section summaryThe bronze work is gathered up under Huram’s craftsmanship, from small utensils to pillars, stands, and the Sea. The section closes by stressing polished bronze, Jordan plain casting, and such abundance that the bronze’s weight cannot be measured.

Role in the chapterThis section sums up the bronze labor as a completed whole. It gives the inventory a craftsman, a place of casting, and a final note of lavish quantity.