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2 Chronicles 4:11He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:22He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood 7½ high. Its circumference was 45 feet.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:33Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every 18 inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:44“The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:55It was four fingers thick, and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:66He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:77He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:88He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made 100 gold bowls.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:99He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1010He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1111Huram Abi made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1212He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1313the 400 pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1414the ten movable stands with their ten basins,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1515the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1616and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord ’s temple were made from polished bronze.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1717The king had them cast in earth foundries in the region of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1818Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:1919Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:2020the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:2121the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
2 Chronicles 4:2222the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’s
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