2 Chronicles 4 - Introduction

[Diuers vessels for the Temple.]

1 The Altar of brasse.

2 The molten Sea vpon twelue oxen.

6 The ten lauers, canstlesticks, and tables.

9 The Courts & the instruments of brasse.

19 The instruments of gold.

1 Moreouer he made an Altar of brasse, twentie cubites the length thereof, and twentie cubites the breadth thereof, and ten cubites the height therof.

2 [Note: 1 Kings 7:23, etc.] Also he made a molten Sea of ten cubites, [Note: Hebrew: from his brim, to his brim.] from brim to brim, round in compasse, and fiue cubites the height thereof, and a line of thirtie cubites did compasse it round about.

3 [Note: 1 Kings 7:24.] And vnder it was the similitude of oxen, which did compasse it round about: tenne in a cubite compassing the Sea round about. Two rowes of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

4 It stood vpon twelue oxen: three looking toward the North, and three looking toward the West, and three looking toward the South, and three looking toward the East: and the Sea was set aboue vpon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

5 And the thicknes of it was an hand breadth, & the brim of it like the worke of the brim of a cup, [Note: Or, like a Lillie flower.] with flowers of Lillies: and it receiued and held three thousand baths.

6 He made also ten Lauers, and put fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the [Note: Hebrew: the worke of burnt offering.] burnt offring, they washed in them, but the Sea was for the Priests to wash in.

7 And hee made ten candlesticks of gold according to their forme, and set them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left.

8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the Temple, fiue on the right side, and fiue on the left: and hee made an hundred [Note: Or, bowles.] basens of gold.

9 Furthermore, hee made the court of the Priests, and the great court, and doores for the court, and ouerlayd the doores of them with brasse.

10 And he set the Sea on the rightside of the East end, ouer against the South.

11 And Huram made the pots, and the shouels, and the [Note: Or, bowles.] basens, and Huram [Note: Hebrew: finished to make.] finished the worke that he was to make for King Solomon for the house of God:

[Diuers vessels for the Temple.]

12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreathes to couer the two pommels of the chapiters, which were on the top of the pillars:

13 And foure hundred Pomegranats on the two wreathes: two rowes of Pomegranats on each wreath, to couer the two pommels of the chapiters, which were [Note: Hebrew: vpon the face.] vpon the pillars.

14 He made also bases; and [Note: Or, caldrons.] lauers made he vpon the bases.

15 One Sea, & twelue oxen vnder it.

16 The pots also, and the shouels, and the fleshhookes, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to King Solomon for the house of the Lord, of [Note: Hebrew: made bright, or scoured.] bright brasse.

17 In the plaine of Iordan did the King cast them, in the [Note: Hebrew: thicknesses of the ground.] clay-ground, betweene Succoth and Zeredathah.

18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brasse could not be found out.

19 And Solomon made all the vessels, that were for the house of God, the golden Altar also, and the tables whereon the Shew-bread was set.

20 Moreouer the candlesticks with their lampes, that they should burne after the maner, before the Oracle, of pure gold:

21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs made he of golde, and that [Note: Hebrew: perfections of gold.] perfect gold.

22 And the snuffers, and the [Note: Or, bowles.] basens, and the spoones, and the censers, of pure gold. And the entry of the house, the inner doores thereof for the most Holy place, and the doores of the house of the Temple, were of gold.