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    2 Chronicles · 22 verses

    2 Chronicles 4

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    The Sea rested on twelve oxen, three facing each direction, while all their hindquarters turned inward toward the centre—a remarkably formal arrangement for a basin, and a rather splendidly bovine foundation.

    The bronze workvv. 1–18

    Solomon’s bronze furnishings begin at grand scale: an altar twenty cubits square and ten cubits high, followed by the circular Sea, ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits high, and thirty cubits around. Oxen run round its rim and bear it beneath, twelve in all, arranged by compass point with their hindquarters toward the centre. Ten basins wash the burnt offering, while the priests use the Sea; ten lampstands, ten tables, a hundred gold bowls, courtyards, and bronze-clad doors follow in brisk succession. Hiram then finishes the pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, pillars, capitals, networks, pomegranates, stands, basins, oxen, and every other bronze article for Solomon in the house of God. The casting takes place in clay moulds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah, and the bronze becomes so abundant that its weight cannot be determined—a most impressive failure of bookkeeping.

    The gold withinvv. 19–22

    Solomon also makes the furnishings for the house of God in gold: the altar, the tables for the Bread of the Presence, the lampstands and lamps before the inner sanctuary, and the flowers, tongs, wick trimmers, bowls, ladles, and censers. At the end come the gold doors, both those of the main hall and those leading into the Most Holy Place. After the vast bronze inventory, the chapter closes by counting out gold objects with the same calm precision, as though the temple had simply required one more cupboard.

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    1. 2 Chr 4:1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

    2. 2 Chr 4:2He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

    3. 2 Chr 4:3Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

    4. 2 Chr 4:4The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

    5. 2 Chr 4:5It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.

    6. 2 Chr 4:6He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing.

    7. 2 Chr 4:7He made ten gold lampstands according to their specifications and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

    8. 2 Chr 4:8Additionally, he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold bowls.

    9. 2 Chr 4:9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze.

    10. 2 Chr 4:10He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.

    11. 2 Chr 4:11Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:

    12. 2 Chr 4:12the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars; the two sets of network covering both bowls of the capitals atop the pillars;

    13. 2 Chr 4:13the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars);

    14. 2 Chr 4:14the stands; the basins on the stands;

    15. 2 Chr 4:15the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

    16. 2 Chr 4:16and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.

    17. 2 Chr 4:17The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah.

    18. 2 Chr 4:18Solomon made all these articles in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

    19. 2 Chr 4:19Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;

    20. 2 Chr 4:20the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

    21. 2 Chr 4:21the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold;

    22. 2 Chr 4:22the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of pure gold; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place as well as the doors of the main hall.

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 51 Kings 7:26It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
    • 61 Kings 7:38He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
    • 81 Kings 7:48Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
    • 91 Kings 6:36Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
    • 11 Kings 8:64On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before the LORD was too small to contain all these offerings.
    • 31 Kings 7:24–26Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
    • 3Ezekiel 1:10The form of their faces was that of a man, and each of the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and also the face of an eagle.
    • 3Revelation 4:7The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.
    • 31 Corinthians 9:9–10For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
    • 3Ezekiel 10:14Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle.
    • 6Exodus 30:18–21“You are to make a bronze basin with a bronze stand for washing. Set it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it,
    • 71 Kings 7:49the lampstands of pure gold in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right side and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
    • 7Exodus 25:31–40Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.
    • 101 Kings 7:39He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.
    • 131 Kings 7:20On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.
    • 162 Chronicles 2:13So now I am sending you Huram-abi, a skillful man endowed with creativity.

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