2 Chronicles 4:15-22

4:15 the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath, 4:16 and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. ¹  All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple ²  were made from polished bronze. 4:17 The king had them cast in earthen foundries ³  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. ⁴ 

4:19 Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence ⁵  was kept, 4:20 the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary, 4:21 the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, 4:22 the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

[4:16]  ¹ tc Some prefer to read here “bowls,” see v. 11 and 1 Kgs 7:45.

[4:16]  ² tn Heb “Huram Abi made for King Solomon [for] the house of the Lord.”

[4:17]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “molds.”

[4:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “Solomon made all these items in great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”

[4:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “the bread of the face/presence.”