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Text -- 2 Chronicles 4:1-12 (NET)
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4:1 He made a bronze altar , 30 feet long , 30 feet wide , and 15 feet high .
4:2 He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea .” It measured 15 feet from rim to rim , was circular in shape , and stood seven and one-half feet high . Its circumference was 45 feet .
4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around , ten every eighteen inches all the way around . The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea .”
4:4 “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls . Three faced northward , three westward , three southward , and three eastward . “The Sea ” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward .
4:5 It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom . It could hold 18,000 gallons .
4:6 He made ten washing basins ; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices ; the priests washed in “The Sea .”
4:7 He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple , five on the right and five on the left .
4:8 He made ten tables and set them in the temple , five on the right and five on the left . He also made one hundred gold bowls .
4:9 He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors ; he plated their doors with bronze .
4:10 He put “The Sea ” on the south side , in the southeast corner.
4:11 Huram Abi made the pots , shovels , and bowls . He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon .
4:12 He made the two pillars , the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars , the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars ,
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Solomon |
Laver |
Temple |
TEMPLE, A1 |
Temple, Solomon's |
SEA, THE MOLTEN; SEA, THE BRAZEN |
Sea, The molten |
Altar |
Lily |
Hiram |
Master Workman |
Handbreadth |
HURAM |
Bowl |
POMMELS |
CANDLESTICK |
BRIM |
Basin |
Chapiter |
Bull |
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NET Notes: 2Ch 4:1 Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).
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NET Notes: 2Ch 4:5 Heb “3,000 baths” (note that the capacity is given in 1 Kings 7:26 as “2,000 baths”). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equi...
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NET Notes: 2Ch 4:11 Heb “Huram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of God.”
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