2 Chronicles 4

1And he made a brazen altar, the length of it twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits,and the height ten cubits. 2And he made the molten sea, in diameter ten cubits, entirely round, and the height ofit five cubits, and the circumference thirty cubits. 3And beneath it the likeness of calves, they compass it round about: ten cubits compassthe laver round about, they cast the calves two rows in their casting, 4wherein 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. 5And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowersof lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finishedit. 6And he made ten lavers, and set five on the right hand, and five on the left, to washin them the instruments of the whole burnt offerings, and to rinsethe vessels in them; and the seawas for the priests to wash in. 7And he made the ten golden candlesticks according to their pattern, and he put them inthe temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. 8And he made ten tables, and put them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five onthe left: and he made a hundred golden bowls. 9Also he made the priests' court, and the great court, and doors to the court, and theirpanelswere overlaid with brass. 10And he set the sea at the corner of the house on the right, as it were fronting the east. 11And Chiram made the flesh hooks, and the fire-pans, and the grate of the altar, and allits instruments: and Chiram finished doing all the work which he wrought for king Solomon in the houseof God: 12two pillars, and upon them an embossed work for the chapiters on the heads of the twopillars, and two nets to cover the heads of the chapiters which are on the heads of the pillars; 13and four hundred golden bells for the two nets, and two rows of pomegranates in eachnet, to cover the two embossed rims of the chapiters which are upon the pillars. 14And he made the ten bases, and he made the lavers upon the bases; 15and the one sea, and the twelve calves under it; 16and the foot-baths, and the buckets, and the caldrons, and the flesh hooks, and all theirfurniture (which Chiram made, and brought to king Solomon in the house of the Lord) of pure brass. 17In the country round about Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground in the houseof Socchoth, and betweenthat and Saredatha. 18So Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance, for the quantity of brass failednot. 19And Solomon made all the vessels of the house of the Lord, and the golden altar, andthe tables, and upon themwere to be the loaves of show bread; 20also the candlesticks, and the lamps to give light according to the pattern, and in frontof the oracle, of pure gold. 21And their snuffers, and their lampswere made, andhe made the bowls, and the censers, and the fire-pans, of pure gold. 22Andthere was the inner door of the houseopening into the holy of holies, andhe made the inner doors of the temple of gold. So all the work which Solomon wrought for thehouse of the Lord was finished.

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