Solomon’s craftsmen furnish the temple with bronze and gold - a massive molten sea on twelve oxen, ten lamp stands, ten tables, and pure gold vessels for Israel’s first permanent house of worship. Second Chronicles 4 catalogs each sacred object Huram of Tyre made for King Solomon, arranged in deliberate bilateral symme

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Then he made an altar of bronze Twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide And ten cubits high

Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim It was round, five cubits high And thirty cubits in circumference Under it was the likeness of oxen

Which encircled it, for ten cubits encircling the sea The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast It stood on twelve oxen, three looking towards the north Three looking towards the west, three looking towards the south

And three looking towards the east And the sea was set on them above And all their hindquarters were inward It was a handbreadth thick

Its brim was made like the brim of a cup Like the flower of a lily It received and held three thousand baths He also made ten basins

And put five on the right hand and five on the left To wash in them The things that belonged to the burnt offering were washed in them But the sea was for the priests to wash in

He made the ten lamp stands of gold According to the ordinance concerning them And he set them in the temple Five on the right hand and five on the left

He made also ten tables and placed them in the temple Five on the right side and five on the left He made one hundred basins of gold Furthermore he made the court of the priests

The vessels prepared The furniture placed The sanctuary furnished The service ordained

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2 Chronicles 4 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.

Published 2026-05-22 · Last updated 2026-06-06
Written by Reid Wender, Editorial Director at Psalmody Press