2 Chronicles 4:1

The Temple’s Furnishings

1 He made ¹an altar of bronze, twenty cubits^[a] long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

2 Chronicles 4:1 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 3:1

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 3:1).

2 Chronicles 4:1 In-Context

1 He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

2 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

3 Under it were figures of gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.

4 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.

5 Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.

Cross References

• 1. 4:1 ch. 7:7; 8:12; [ch. 15:8; 1 Kgs. 8:64; 2 Kgs. 16:14]; See Ezek. 43:13-17

Footnotes

• [a] 4:1 A 'cubit' was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters