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4:1 Then he made a bronze altar, ①twenty cubits in length, ②twenty cubits in width, and ③ten cubits in height.
▷ ①About 30 ft. or 9 m ②About 30 ft. or 9 m ③About 15 ft. or 4.6 m
4:2 He also made the ①Sea of cast metal, ②ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was ③five cubits and ④its circumference ⑤thirty cubits.
▷ ①I.e., large basin ②About 15 ft. or 4.6 m ③About 7.5 ft. or 2.3 m ④Lit a line of 30 cubits encircling it round about ⑤About 45 ft. or 14 m
4:3 Now figures like oxen were under it and all around it, ①ten cubits, entirely encircling the Sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast ②in one piece.
▷ ①About 15 ft. or 4.6 m ②Lit in its casting
4:4 It was standing on twelve oxen, three facing 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 inward.
4:5 It was a ①hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold three thousand ②baths.
▷ ①About 3 in. or 7.6 cm ②About 18,000 gallons or 68,137 liters
4:6 He also made ten basins in which to wash, and he set five on the right side and five on the left ①to rinse things for the burnt offering; but the Sea was for the priests to wash in.
▷ ①Lit in which to
4:7 Then he made the ten golden lampstands in the way prescribed for them, and he set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left.
4:8 He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred golden bowls.
4:9 Then he made the courtyard of the priests and the great courtyard, and doors for the courtyard, and overlaid their doors with bronze.
4:10 He put the Sea on the right side of the house toward the southeast.
4:11 Huram also made the pails, the shovels, and the bowls. So Huram finished the work that he did for King Solomon in the house of God:
4:12 the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars,
4:13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the pillars.
4:14 He also made the stands and he made the basins on the stands,
4:15 and the one Sea with the twelve oxen under it.
4:16 The pails, the shovels, the forks, and all its utensils, Huram-abi made of polished bronze for King Solomon, for the house of the LORD.
4:17 On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
4:18 So Solomon made all these utensils in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
4:19 Solomon also made all the things that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables with the bread of the Presence on them,
4:20 the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary in the way prescribed;
4:21 the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold, that is, of purest gold;
4:22 and the snuffers, the bowls, the spoons, and the firepans of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, its inner doors for the Most Holy Place and the doors of the house, that is, of the main room, of gold.
▷ ①About 30 ft. or 9 m ②About 30 ft. or 9 m ③About 15 ft. or 4.6 m
4:2 He also made the ①Sea of cast metal, ②ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was ③five cubits and ④its circumference ⑤thirty cubits.
▷ ①I.e., large basin ②About 15 ft. or 4.6 m ③About 7.5 ft. or 2.3 m ④Lit a line of 30 cubits encircling it round about ⑤About 45 ft. or 14 m
4:3 Now figures like oxen were under it and all around it, ①ten cubits, entirely encircling the Sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast ②in one piece.
▷ ①About 15 ft. or 4.6 m ②Lit in its casting
4:4 It was standing on twelve oxen, three facing 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 inward.
4:5 It was a ①hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold three thousand ②baths.
▷ ①About 3 in. or 7.6 cm ②About 18,000 gallons or 68,137 liters
4:6 He also made ten basins in which to wash, and he set five on the right side and five on the left ①to rinse things for the burnt offering; but the Sea was for the priests to wash in.
▷ ①Lit in which to
4:7 Then he made the ten golden lampstands in the way prescribed for them, and he set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left.
4:8 He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred golden bowls.
4:9 Then he made the courtyard of the priests and the great courtyard, and doors for the courtyard, and overlaid their doors with bronze.
4:10 He put the Sea on the right side of the house toward the southeast.
4:11 Huram also made the pails, the shovels, and the bowls. So Huram finished the work that he did for King Solomon in the house of God:
4:12 the two pillars, the bowls and the two capitals on top of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars,
4:13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the pillars.
4:14 He also made the stands and he made the basins on the stands,
4:15 and the one Sea with the twelve oxen under it.
4:16 The pails, the shovels, the forks, and all its utensils, Huram-abi made of polished bronze for King Solomon, for the house of the LORD.
4:17 On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.
4:18 So Solomon made all these utensils in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
4:19 Solomon also made all the things that were in the house of God: the golden altar, the tables with the bread of the Presence on them,
4:20 the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary in the way prescribed;
4:21 the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold, that is, of purest gold;
4:22 and the snuffers, the bowls, the spoons, and the firepans of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, its inner doors for the Most Holy Place and the doors of the house, that is, of the main room, of gold.