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; 1 he plated their doors with bronze. 4:10 He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.
4:11 Huram Abi 2 made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 3 4:12 He made 4 the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, 4:13 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar), 4:14 the ten 5 movable stands with their ten 6 basins, 4:15 the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath, 4:16 and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. 7 All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple 8 were made from polished bronze. 4:17 The king had them cast in earthen foundries 9 in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. 4:18 Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze. 10
1 tn Heb “and the doors for the enclosure.”
1 tn Heb “Huram,” but here this refers to Huram Abi (2 Chr 2:13). The complete name has been used in the translation to avoid possible confusion with King Huram of Tyre.
2 tn Heb “Huram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of God.”
1 tn The words “he made” are added for stylistic reasons.
1 tc The Hebrew text has עָשָׂה (’asah, “he made”), which is probably a corruption of עֶשֶׂר (’eser, “ten”; see 1 Kgs 7:43).
2 tc The Hebrew text has עָשָׂה (’asah, “he made”), which is probably a corruption of עֲשָׂרָה (’asarah, “ten”; see 1 Kgs 7:43).
1 tc Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45.
2 tn Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the
1 tn Or perhaps, “molds.”
1 tn Heb “Solomon made all these items in great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”