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called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz. great hall, and doors in the hall, which he cov-
ered with brass.
10 And he set the sea on the right side over
Chapter 4 against the east toward the south.
11 And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks,
He made also an altar of brass twenty cubits
and bowls: and finished all the king’s work the
long, and twenty cubits broad, and ten cubits
house of God:
high.
12 That is to say, the two pillars, and the
2 Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to
pommels, and the chapiters, and the network,
brim, round in compass: it was five cubits high, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.
and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round 13 And four hundred pomegranates, and
about.
two wreaths of network, so that two rows of
3 And under it there was the likeness of oxen, pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to
and certain engravings on the outside of ten cu- cover the pommels, and the chapiters of the pil-
bits compassed the belly of the sea, as it were lars.
with two rows. 14 He made also bases, and lavers, which he
4 And the oxen were cast: and the sea itself set upon the bases:
was set upon the twelve oxen, three of which 15 One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
looked toward the north, and other three toward 16 And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and
the west: and other three toward the south, and bowls. All the vessels did Hiram his father make
the other three that remained toward the east, for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the finest
and the sea stood upon them: and the hinder brass.
parts of the oxen were inward under the sea. 17 In the country near the Jordan did the king
5 Now the thickness of it was a handbreadth, cast them, in a clay ground between Sochot and
and the brim of it was like the brim of a cup, Saredatha.
or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand 18 And the multitude of vessels was innumer-
measures. able, so that the weight of the brass was not
6 He made also ten lavers: and he set five on known.
the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in 19 And Solomon made all the vessels for the
them all such things as they were to offer for house of God, and the golden altar, and the ta-
holocausts: but the sea was for the priests to bles, upon which were the loaves of proposition,
wash in. 20 The candlesticks also of most pure gold
7 And he made ten golden candlesticks, ac- with their lamps to give light before the oracle,
cording to the form which they were commanded according to the manner.
to be made by: and he set them in the temple, 21 And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden
five on the right hand, and five on the left. tongs: all were made of the finest gold.
8 Moreover also ten tables: and he set them 22 The vessels also for the perfumes, and the
in the temple, five on the right side, and five on censers, and the bowls, and the mortars, of pure
the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold. gold. And he graved the doors of the inner tem-
9 He made also the court of the priests, and a ple, that is, for the holy of holies: and the doors