1He also made an altar of brass. It was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
2He also made a great basin of cast metal, called the sea. It was round, ten cubits from rim to rim, and five cubits high. A line of thirty cubits would reach around it.
3Under it were shapes like oxen, going all the way around it, ten to every cubit, circling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece with the sea.
4It stood on twelve oxen. Three looked toward the north, three toward the west, three toward the south, and three toward the east. The sea rested on top of them, and all their back parts were turned inward.
5It was as thick as a hand's width. Its rim was made like the rim of a cup, with lily flowers. It held three thousand baths.
6He also made ten basins for washing, and set five on the right side and five on the left. In these they washed the things they offered for the burnt offering. But the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7He made ten lampstands of gold, following the pattern for them, and set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left.
8He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred bowls of gold.
9He also made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and he covered the doors with brass.
10He set the sea on the right side of the east end, toward the south.
11Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. So Huram finished the work he was to do for King Solomon for the house of God:
12the two pillars, and the round tops, and the capitals that were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two round tops of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;
13and four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates on each network, to cover the two round tops of the capitals that were on the pillars.
14He also made the stands, and he made basins on the stands;
15one sea, and twelve oxen under it.
16Huram his master workman also made the pots, the shovels, the meat hooks, and all their tools for King Solomon for the house of the LORD, out of polished brass.
17The king cast them in the plain of Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
18So Solomon made all these vessels in very great number, for the weight of the brass could not be measured.
19Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God: the golden altar, and the tables where the showbread was set;
20and the lampstands with their lamps, of pure gold, to burn in the proper way in front of the inner room;
21and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs he made of gold, and that the purest gold;
22and the snuffers, the bowls, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold. And the entrance of the house, its inner doors for the most holy place, and the doors of the main hall of the temple, were of gold.