Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers;<n id="1" /> set aside each one when you have filled it.&#8221;

When the containers were full, she said to one of her sons,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Bring me another container.&#8221; But he answered her, &#8220;There are no more.&#8221; Then the olive oil stopped flowing.

The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple &#8211; including the two pillars, the big bronze basin called &#8220;The Sea,&#8221; the twelve bronze bulls under &#8220;The Sea,&#8221;<n id="1" /> and the movable stands &#8211; was too heavy to be weighed.

He took away all the gold and silver, all the items found in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace, and some hostages.<n id="1" /> Then he went back to Samaria.<n id="2" />p> <p class="bodytext">(

<p class="bodytext">The king ordered Hilkiah the high priest, the high-ranking priests,<n id="1" /> and the guards<n id="2" /> to bring out of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple all the items that were used in the worship of<n id="3" /> Baal, Asherah, and all the stars of the sky.<n id="4" /> The king<n id="5" /> burned them outside of Jerusalem in the terraces<n id="6" /> of Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.<n id="7" />