42 Chronicles · Contemporary English Version (2006)
1Solomon had a bronze altar made that was nine meters square and four and a half meters high.
2He also gave orders to make a large metal bowl called the Sea. It was 4.5 meters across, just over two meters deep, and 13.5 meters around.
3Its outer edge was decorated with two rows of carvings of bulls, ten bulls to about every 45 centimeters, all made from the same piece of metal as the bowl.
4The bowl itself sat on top of twelve bronze bulls, with three bulls facing outward in each of four directions.
5The sides of the bowl were 75 millimeters thick, and its rim was in the shape of a cup that curved outward like flower petals. The bowl held about 60,000 liters.
6He also made ten small bowls and put five on each side of the large bowl. The small bowls were used to wash the animals that were burned on the altar as sacrifices, and the priests used the water in the large bowl to wash their hands.
7Ten gold lampstands were also made according to the plans. Solomon placed these lampstands inside the temple, five on each side of the main room.
8He also made ten tables and placed them in the main room, five on each side. And he made 100 small gold sprinkling bowls.
9Solomon gave orders to build two courtyards: a smaller one that only priests could use and a larger one. The doors to these courtyards were covered with bronze.
10The large bowl called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the temple.
11Huram made shovels, sprinkling bowls, and pans for hot ashes. Here is a list of the other furnishings he made for God's temple:
12two columns, two bowl-shaped caps for the tops of these columns, two chain designs on the caps,
13400 pomegranates in two rows for the chain designs,
22lamp snuffers, small sprinkling bowls, ladles, fire pans, and the doors to the most holy place and the main room of the temple.
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