2 Chronicles 4:1-6

Furnishings of the Temple

1 Then ¹he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height.

2 ²Also 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 ³could hold 3,000 * baths.

6 ⁴He 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.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 27:1, 2; 2 Kings 16:14
• 2. 1 Kings 7:23-26
• 3. 1 Kings 7:26
• 4. Exodus 30:17-21; 1 Kings 7:38, 40

Footnotes

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