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2 Paralipomenon 4

1He made also an altar of brass of twenty cubits in length, and of twenty cubits in breadth, and of ten cubits in height.

2A Sea also cast, ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass: it had five cubits in height, and a cord of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

3There was also under it the similitude of oxen, and certain engravings of ten cubits on the outside compassed the belly of the Sea, as it were with two rews.

4and the oxen were cast: and the Sea it-self was set upon the twelve oxen, of the which three looked toward the North, and other three to the West: moreover other three to the South, and the three that remained, to the East, having the Sea put upon them: and the hinder parts of the oxen were inward under the sea.

5Moreover the thickness thereof had the measure of a palm, and the brim thereof was as it were the brim of a chalice, or of a crisped lily: and it held three thousand metretes.

6He made also ten lavatories: and set five on the right hand, and five on the left, that they might wash in them all things, that they would offer for holocaust: moreover in the Sea the Priests were washed.

7And he made also ten golden candlesticks, according to the fashion which they were commanded to be made by: and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

8Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. Phials also of gold an hundred.

9He made also the court of the Priests, and a great hall: and doors in the hall, which he covered with brass.

10Moreover he set the Sea on the right side against the East toward the South.

11And Hiram made cauldrons, and flesh-hooks, and phials: and accomplished all the king's work in the house of God:

12that is to say, two pillars, and the chapiters and the heads, and as it were certain little nets, which should cover the heads over the chapiters.

13Pomegranates also four hundred, and two little nets, so that two rews of the pomegranates were joined to each little net, which covered the pommels, and the heads of the pillars.

14He made feet also, and lavatories, which he put upon the feet:

15one sea, also twelve oxen under the sea.

16And the cauldrons, and flesh-hooks, and phials. All the vessels did Hiram his father make for Salomon in the house of our Lord of most pure brass.

17In the country of Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay ground between Socot and Saredatha.

18And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.

19And Salomon made all the vessels of the house of God, and the golden altar, and the tables, and upon them the loaves of proposition,

20the candlesticks also with their lamps to give light before the oracle, according to the rite, of most pure gold:

21and certain flourishing things, and lamps, and golden tongs all were made of most fine gold.

22The vessels also of perfume and censers, and phials, and little mortars, of most pure gold. And he graved the doors of the inner temple, that is, in Sancta Sanctorum: and the doors of the temple without of gold. And so all the work was finished which Salomon made in the house of our Lord.