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2 Chronicles - ch 4 v 1 - 20
- He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits high.
- 1omon made in the house of the Lord.
- Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.
- And under it there was the likeness of oxen, and certain engravings on the outside of ten cubits compassed the belly of the sea, as it were with two rows.
- And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself was set upon the twelve oxen, three of which looked toward the north, and other three toward the west: and other three toward the south, and the other three that remained toward the east, and the sea stood upon them: and the hinder parts of the oxen were in- ward under the sea.
- Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand measures.
- He made also ten lavers: and he see five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them all such things as they mere to offer for holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to wash in.
- And he made ten golden candlesticks, according to the form which they were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
- Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.
- He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.
- And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward the south.
- And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished all the king's work in the house of God:
- That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.
- And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so that two rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the pommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.
- He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:
- One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
- And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls. All the vessels did Hiram his father make for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the finest brass.
- In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay ground between Sochot and Saredatha.
- And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.
- And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God, and the golden altar, and the tables, upon which were the leaves of proposition,
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