2 Chronicles 4
1 And he made a brazen altar, the
length of it twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits, and the height ten
cubits. 2 And he made the molten sea,
in diameter ten cubits, entirely round, and the height of it five cubits, and
the circumference thirty cubits. 3 And
beneath it the likeness of calves, they compass it round about: ten cubits
compass the laver round about, they cast the calves two rows in their casting,
4 wherein they made them twelve
calves,—three looking northwards, and three westwards, and three southwards,
and three eastwards: and the sea was upon them above,
and their hinder parts were inward.
5 And its thickness was a
hand-breadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowers of
lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finished
it.
6 And he made ten lavers, and set five
on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them the instruments of
the whole-burnt-offerings, and to rinse
the vessels in them; and the sea
was for the priests to wash in.
7 And he made the ten golden
candlesticks according to their pattern, and he put them in the temple, five
on the right hand, and five on the left.
8 And he made ten tables, and put them
in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left: and he made a
hundred golden bowls. 9 Also he made
the priests' court, and the great court, and doors to the court, and their
panels were overlaid with brass.
10 And he set the sea at the corner
of the house on the right, as it were fronting the east.
11 And Chiram made the fleshhooks,
and the fire-pans, and the grate of the altar, and all its instruments: and
Chiram finished doing all the work which he wrought for king Solomon in the
house of God: 12 two pillars, and
upon them an embossed work for the chapiters on the heads of the two pillars,
and two nets to cover the heads of the chapiters which are on the heads of the
pillars; 13 and four hundred golden
bells for the two nets, and two rows of pomegranates in each net, to cover the
two embossed rims of the chapiters which are upon the pillars.
14 And he made the ten bases, and he
made the lavers upon the bases;
15 and the one sea, and the twelve
calves under it; 16 and the
foot-baths, and the buckets, and the caldrons, and the flesh-hooks, and all
their furniture (which Chiram made, and brought to king Solomon in the house
of the Lord) of pure brass. 17 In the
country round about Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground in the house
of Socchoth, and between that and Saredatha.
18 So Solomon made all these vessels
in great abundance, for the quantity of brass failed not.
19 And Solomon made all the vessels
of the house of the Lord, and the golden altar, and the tables, and upon them
were to be the loaves of shewbread;
20 also the candlesticks, and the
lamps to give light according to the pattern, and in front of the oracle, of
pure gold. 21 And their snuffers, and
their lamps were made, and
he made the bowls, and the censers, and the
fire-pans, of pure gold. 22 And
there was the inner door of the house
opening into the holy of holies, and
he made the inner doors of the temple of gold. So all
the work which Solomon wrought for the house of the Lord was finished.