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It was 7 <span class="sup">1</span>/<span class="sub">2</span> feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of figures that resembled oxen. There were about six oxen per foot<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> all the way around, and they were cast as part of the basin.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east, and the Sea rested on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The walls of the Sea were about three inches<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a water lily blossom. It could hold about 16,500 gallons<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> of water.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He also made ten smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings. He set five on the south side and five on the north. But the priests washed themselves in the Sea.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He then cast ten gold lampstands according to the specifications that had been given, and he put them in the Temple. Five were placed against the south wall, and five were placed against the north wall.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the north wall. Then he molded 100 gold basins.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He then built a courtyard for the priests, and also the large outer courtyard. He made doors for the courtyard entrances and overlaid them with bronze. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Huram-abi also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls.</p><p class="reg">So at last Huram-abi completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to make for the Temple of God:</p><p class="b"/><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>the two pillars;</p><p class="li1">the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;</p><p class="li1">the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals;</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of the chain networks that decorated the capitals on top of the pillars);</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>the water carts holding the basins;</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>the Sea and the twelve oxen under it;</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>the ash buckets, the shovels, the meat hooks, and all the related articles.</p><p class="b"/><p class="m">Huram-abi made all these things of burnished bronze for the Temple of the LORD, just as King Solomon had directed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Solomon also made all the furnishings for the Temple of God:</p><p class="b"/><p class="li1">the gold altar;</p><p class="li1">the tables for the Bread of the Presence;</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>the lampstands and their lamps of solid gold, to burn in front of the Most Holy Place as prescribed;</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs—all of the purest gold;</p><p class="li1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_chronicles/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>the lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners—all of solid gold;</p><p class="li1">the doors for the entrances to the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple, overlaid with gold.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:1a </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">Huram-abi;</span><span class="ft"> Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">He.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:1b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">20 cubits</span><span class="ft"> [9.2 meters] </span><span class="it">long, 20 cubits wide, and 10 cubits</span><span class="ft"> [4.6 meters] </span><span class="it">high.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">10 cubits</span><span class="ft"> [4.6 meters] </span><span class="it">across . . . 5 cubits</span><span class="ft"> [2.3 meters] </span><span class="it">deep and 30 cubits</span><span class="ft"> [13.8 meters] </span><span class="it">in circumference.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">20 oxen per meter;</span><span class="ft"> Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">10 per cubit.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:5a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">a handbreadth</span><span class="ft"> [8 centimeters].</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:5b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">3,000 baths</span><span class="ft"> [63 kiloliters].</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">4:17 </span><span class="ft">As in parallel text at 1 Kgs 7:46; 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