1He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high. 2He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 3Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.” 4“The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. 5It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons. 6He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.”

7He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. 8He 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. 9He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze. 10He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.

11Huram Abi made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. 12He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, 13the 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), 14the ten movable stands with their ten basins, 15the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath, 16and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple were made from polished bronze. 17The king had them cast in earthen foundries in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. 18Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze.

19Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept, 20the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary, 21the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs, 22the 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.