Furnishings of the Temple
1 Moreover he madea bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.
2 Then he made the Sea of castbronze,ten cubits from one brim to the other;itwascompletely round. Its heightwasfive cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
3 And under itwasthe likeness of oxen encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The oxenwerecast in two rows, when it was cast.
4 It stood on twelveoxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Seawassetupon them, and all their back partspointedinward.
5 Itwasa handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup,likea lily blossom. It contained three thousand baths.
6 He also madeten lavers, and put five on the right side and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as they offered for the burnt offering they would wash in them, but the Seawasfor thepriests to wash in.
7 And he made ten lampstands of goldaccording to their design, and setthemin the temple, five on the right side and five on the left.
8 He also made ten tables, and placedthemin the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundredbowls of gold.
9 Furthermorehe made the court of the priests, and thegreat court and doors for the court; and he overlaid these doors with bronze.
10 He set the Sea on the right side, toward the southeast.
11 ThenHuram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of God:
12 the two pillars andthe bowl-shaped capitalsthatwereon top of the two pillars; the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals whichwereon top of the pillars;
13 four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals thatwereon the pillars);
14 he also madecarts and the lavers on the carts;
15 one Sea and twelve oxen under it;
16 also the pots, the shovels, the forks—and all their articlesHuram his mastercraftsmanmade of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of theLord.
17 In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between Succoth and Zeredah.
18 And Solomon had all these articles made in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze was not determined.
19 ThusSolomon had all the furnishings made for the house of God: the altar of gold and the tables on whichwasthe showbread;
20 the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burnin the prescribed manner in front of the inner sanctuary,
21 withthe flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold, of purest gold;
22 the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the censers of pure gold. As for the entry of the sanctuary, its inner doors to the Most HolyPlace,and the doors of the main hall of the temple,weregold.