Verse 2
2 Chronicles 4:2
New Living Translation
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Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7 1⁄2 feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ אֶת הַ/יָּ֖ם מוּצָ֑ק עֶ֣שֶׂר בָּֽ֠/אַמָּה מִ/שְּׂפָת֨/וֹ אֶל שְׂפָת֜/וֹ עָג֣וֹל סָבִ֗יב וְ/חָמֵ֤שׁ בָּֽ/אַמָּה֙ קֽוֹמָת֔/וֹ וְ/קָו֙ שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים בָּֽ/אַמָּ֔ה יָסֹ֥ב אֹת֖/וֹ סָבִֽיב
English Translation
And he made the sea solid, ten cubits from its edge to its edge, round all around, and five cubits was its height, and a line of thirty cubits went around it all around.
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Chapter 4 Context
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Solomon also made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.
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Then he cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from rim to rim, called the Sea. It was 7 1⁄2 feet...
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It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of figures that resembled oxen. There were about six...
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The Sea was placed on a base of twelve bronze oxen, all facing outward. Three faced north, three fac...
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The walls of the Sea were about three inches thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled...
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He also made ten smaller basins for washing the utensils for the burnt offerings. He set five on the...
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He then cast ten gold lampstands according to the specifications that had been given, and he put the...
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He also built ten tables and placed them in the Temple, five along the south wall and five along the...
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He then built a courtyard for the priests, and also the large outer courtyard. He made doors for the...
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The great bronze basin called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the Temple.
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Huram-abi also made the necessary washbasins, shovels, and bowls. So at last Huram-abi completed eve...
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the two pillars;<br>the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;<br>the two networks of inter...
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the 400 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals (two rows of pomegranates for each of...
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the water carts holding the basins;<br>
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the Sea and the twelve oxen under it;<br>
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the ash buckets, the shovels, the meat hooks, and all the related articles.<br> Huram-abi made all t...
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The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.
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Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined.
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Solomon also made all the furnishings for the Temple of God (Elohim): the gold altar;<br>the tables...
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the lampstands and their lamps of solid gold, to burn in front of the Most Holy Place as prescribed;...
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the flower decorations, lamps, and tongs — all of the purest gold;<br>
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the lamp snuffers, bowls, ladles, and incense burners — all of solid gold;<br>the doors for the entr...
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