2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 4 ©

1 The altar of brass. 2 The molten sea supported by twelve oxen. 6 The ten lavers, candlesticks, and tables. 9 The two courts. 11 The vessels, furniture, and instruments of brass. 19 The vessels, furniture, and instruments of gold.

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MOREOVER he made an aaltar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

a Ex. 27.1-8; 38.1-7. 1Ki. 8.22,64; 9.25. 2Ki. 16.14. ch. 7.7. Eze. 43.13-16.
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¶Also bhe made a molten sea of ten cubits 1from brim to brim, round in *compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did *compass it round about.

b 1Ki. 7.23-26. Ex. 30.17-21; 38.8. Zec. 13.1. Re. 1.5; 7.14. Tit. 3.5-7. 1Jn. 1.7.
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And cunder it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, *compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

c 1Ki. 7.23-25. Re. 21.14. Ep. 2.20. Ac. 9.15. Mar. 16.15.
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It stood dupon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

d v.3. Mar. 16.15. Is. 49.6; 45.22-25. Ps. 22.27; 98.2,3.
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And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, 2with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.

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¶He made also eten *lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: 3such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; fbut the sea was for the priests to wash in.

e Ex. 30.17; 38.8,9. 1Ki. 7.38. 1Pe. 1.2,18. Is. 4.4. Eze. 40.38. 1Jn. 1.7.
f v.2. 1Ki. 7.26. Re. 1.5,6. He. 9.14. 1Jn. 1.7.
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And he made gten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

g 1Ki. 7.49.
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He made also hten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred 4basons of gold.

h Ex. 25.23-30; 37.10-16. 1Ki. 7.48. Is. 25.6. v.19.
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¶Furthermore he made ithe court of the priests, and the great jcourt, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

i 1Ki. 6.36; 7.12.
j ch. 7.7; 20.5. Ps. 100.4.
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And he kset the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

k 1Ki. 7.39.
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And Huram made lthe pots, and the shovels, and the 5basons. And Huram 6finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;

l 1Ki. 7.40,45.
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*To wit, mthe two pillars, and the *pommels, and the *chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;

m 1Ki. 7.41,42. ch. 3.15-17.
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And nfour hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two *pommels of the *chapiters which were 7upon the pillars.

n 1Ki. 7.42. Ps. 1.3; 92.13. Ca. 4.13. 2Co. 4.11-18.
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He omade also bases, and 8*lavers made he upon the bases;

o 1Ki. 7.43-46. v.2-6,11.
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One psea, and twelve oxen under it.

p v.2-5.
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The qpots also, and the shovels, and the *fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of 9bright brass.

q Ex. 27.3. 1Ch. 28.17. Zec. 14.20. 1Sa. 2.13,14.
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In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the 10clay ground between Succoth and rZeredathah.

r 1Ki. 7.46; 11.26.
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Thus sSolomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

s 1Ki. 7.47. 1Ch. 22.14; 29.7.
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¶And tSolomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, uthe golden altar also, and vthe tables whereon the shewbread was set;

t 1Ki. 7.48-50.
u ch. 26.16,18. Ex. 30.1-10.
v v.8. Le. 24.6-8.
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Moreover wthe candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the *manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

w v.7. Ex. 25.31-37; 27.20,21. 1Ki. 6.5,16,17; 8.6.
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And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that 11perfect gold;

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And the snuffers, and the 12basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.