2 Chronicles 4 NIV ISV Parallel

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1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

1Solomon also constructed a bronze altar 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and ten cubits high.

2He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.

2He crafted a circular sea of cast metal 10 cubits from rim to rim and five cubits tall. A line 30 cubits long surrounded it.

3Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it--ten to a cubit. The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

3Underneath, figurines resembling oxen encircled the circular sea beneath it, ten oxen every cubit, and encircling the sea completely. The oxen were in two rows, cast all at the same time.

4The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center.

4The sea stood on top of twelve oxen, three of which faced to the north, three of which faced to the west, three of which faced to the south, and three of which faced toward the east. The sea was placed on top of the oxen, with all of their hindquarters turned inwards.

5It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.

5It was a handbreadth thick, with its brim fashioned like the brim of a cup. Similar in shape to a lily blossom, it could hold 3,000 baths.

6He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.

6Solomon also made ten wash basins, placing five on the right side and five on the left. The basins were intended for use to rinse burnt offerings, and the sea was intended for use by the priests to wash in.

7He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.

7Solomon made ten gold lamp stands as he had been directed and set them in the Temple, five on the south side and five on the north side.

8He 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 sprinkling bowls.

8He also made ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left side. He also constructed 100 gold basins.

9He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze.

9He made the court of the priests, the great court, and doors for the court, overlaying their doors with bronze.

10He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.

10He set the sea at the southeast corner of the Temple.

11And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:

11Hiram-abi crafted the pots, shovels, and basins, thus completing the work that he did for King Solomon on the Temple of God;

12the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

12that is, the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals on top of the pillars, the two lattice works that covered the two bowls for the capitals that were on top of the pillars;

13the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);

13the 400 pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework having two rows of ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of each pillar);

14the stands with their basins;

14the ten stands with their ten basins;

15the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;

15the large bronze basin called the Sea with the twelve oxen underneath,

16the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles. All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of polished bronze.

16along with its pots, shovels, forks, and all of its other implements that Hiram-abi made from polished bronze for King Solomon and the LORD's Temple.

17The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.

17The king had them forged in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah in the Jordan plain.

18All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.

18Solomon made so many utensils in such great quantities that the weight of the bronze was never fully recorded.

19Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God's temple: the golden altar; the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;

19Solomon also made these items for God's Temple: the golden altar, the tables for the Bread of the Presence,

20the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;

20the lamp stands and their lamps made of pure gold to burn in front of the inner sanctuary, as required,

21the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);

21the pure gold ornaments in the shape of flowers, the lamps, and the tongs (all made of the purest gold),

22the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.

22the gold trimming instruments, basins, pans, censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (that is, the Most Holy Place), and for the doors to the main hall of the Temple.

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