Chapter 4
1 Then he made an altar of bronze , twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide , and ten cubits high .
2 Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim . It was round , five cubits high , and thirty cubits in circumference .
3 Under it was the likeness of oxen , which encircled it , for ten cubits, encircling the sea . The oxen were in two rows , cast when it was cast .
4 It stood on twelve oxen , three looking towards the north , three looking towards the west , three looking towards the south , and three looking towards the east ; and the sea was set on them above , and all their hindquarters were inward .
5 It was a handbreadth thick . Its brim was made like the brim of a cup , like the flower of a lily . It received and held three thousand baths .
6 He also made ten basins , and put five on the right hand and five on the left , to wash in them . The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them , but the sea was for the priests to wash in .
7 He made the ten lamp stands of gold according to the ordinance concerning them ; and he set them in the temple , five on the right hand and five on the left .
8 He made also ten tables , and placed them in the temple , five on the right side and five on the left . He made one hundred basins of gold .
9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests , the great court , and doors for the court , and overlaid their doors with bronze .
10 He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward , towards the south .
11 Huram made the pots , the shovels , and the basins . So Huram finished doing the work that he did for King Solomon in God’s house :
12 the two pillars , the bowls , the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars , the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars ,
13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks — two rows of pomegranates for each network , to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars .
14 He also made the bases , and he made the basins on the bases —
15 one sea , and the twelve oxen under it .
16 Huram-abi also made the pots , the shovels , the forks , and all its vessels for King Solomon , for the LORD ’s house , of bright bronze .
17 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan , in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah .
18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance , so that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
19 Solomon made all the vessels that were in God’s house : the golden altar , the tables with the show bread on them ,
20 and the lamp stands with their lamps to burn according to the ordinance before the inner sanctuary , of pure gold ;
21 and the flowers , the lamps , and the tongs of gold that was purest gold ;
22 and the snuffers , the basins , the spoons , and the fire pans of pure gold . As for the entry of the house , its inner doors for the most holy place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were of gold .