2 Chronicles 4:2-12

2 1Also he made the cast metal sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits and its circumference * * thirty cubits.
3 Now figures like oxen were under it and all around * it, ten cubits, entirely encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece.
4 It stood on twelve * oxen, three facing the north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them and all their hindquarters turned inwards.
5 It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it 2could hold 3,000 * baths.
6 3He also made ten basins in which to wash, and he set five on the right side and five on the left to rinse things for the burnt offering; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 Then 4he made the ten golden lampstands in the way prescribed for them and he set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left.
8 He also made 5ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred golden bowls.
9 Then he made 6the court * of the priests and 7the great court and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.
10 8He set the sea on the right side of the house toward the southeast.
11 9Huram also made the pails, the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work which he performed for King Solomon in the house of God:
12 the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars,

Cross References 9

  • 1. 1 Kings 7:23-26
  • 2. 1 Kings 7:26
  • 3. Exodus 30:17-21; 1 Kings 7:38, 40
  • 4. Exodus 25:31-40; 1 Kings 7:49
  • 5. 1 Kings 7:48
  • 6. 1 Kings 6:36
  • 7. 2 Kings 21:5
  • 8. 1 Kings 7:39
  • 9. 1 Kings 7:40-51

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Lit "a line of 30 cubits encircling it round about"
  • [b]. Lit "in its casting"
  • [c]. Lit "in which to"
  • [d]. Lit "shoulder"
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