1 Kings 7:23-47 ▼

23 And he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten by the cubit from one brim to the other. It was perfectly round, and five by the cubit was its height, and a line of thirty by the cubit surrounded it all around.

24 And were ornamental buds beneath its brim round about surrounding it, ten by the cubit, all the way around the Sea. In two rows the ornamental buds were cast when it was cast.

25 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing toward the north, and three facing toward the west, and three facing toward the south, and three facing toward the east; and the Sea was over them, and all their hindquarters were inward.

26 And it was a handbreadth thick, and its brim as the work of the brim of a cup, a lily blossom. It contained two thousand baths.

27 And He made ten carts of bronze, four by the cubit the length of the one cart, and four by the cubit its width, and three by the cubit its height.

28 And this was the design of the carts: Panels were unto them, and the panels between frames.

29 And on the panels that were between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the frames was a pedestal on top; and beneath the lions and the oxen were wreaths of plaited work.

30 And four bronze wheels were unto the one cart, and axles of bronze, and its four feet were supports to them; under the basin were supports of cast bronze beside each of the wreaths.

31 And its opening inside the crown and at the top was a cubit, and the opening was round shaped a pedestal, one and a half of the cubit, and also on the opening were engravings, and the panels were square not round.

32 And the four wheels were under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were to the cart. And the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half a cubit.

33 And the workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a wheel of a chariot. Their hubs, and their axles, and their spokes, and their rims were all of cast metal.

34 And were four supports at the four corners of the one cart, its supports were of the cart itself.

35 And on the top of the cart was half a cubit at the height all around circular, and on the top of the cart were its hands and its rims of the same casting.

36 And he engraved on the plates of its hands and on its rims cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the void space of each, with wreaths all around.

37 Thus he made the ten carts; one casting, one measure, one shape was for all of them.

38 And he made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths; one basin was four by the cubit; one basin on one cart was to the ten carts.

39 And he put five carts on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house, and the Sea he set on the right side of the house eastward toward the south.

40 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the sprinkling bowls. And Huram finished doing all the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of YHWH:

41 The two pillars; and the bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars; and the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the pillars;

42 and four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the pillars;

43 and the ten carts; and the ten basins on the carts;

44 and the one Sea; and the twelve oxen under the Sea;

45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls; and all these vessels that Huram made for King Solomon for the house of YHWH were of polished bronze.

46 In the plain of the Jordan the king had cast them in clay molds, between Succoth and between Zarethan.

47 And Solomon did not weigh all the articles; because of the exceedingly great abundance, the weight of the bronze was not determined.