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¹ And hee made an altar of brasse twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and ten cubites hie.

² Also he made a moltenA great vessel of brass, so called because of the great quantity of water which it contained, (1Ki_7:24).sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

³ And underMeaning, under the brim of the sea, (1Ki_7:24).it [was] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about:In the length of every cubit were ten heads or knops which in all are 300.ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen [were] cast, when it was cast.

⁴ It stoode vpon twelue oxen: three looked toward the North, and three looked towarde the West, and three looked towarde the South, and three looked towarde the East, and the Sea stoode about vpon them, and all their hinder parts were inwarde.

⁵ And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; [and] it received and heldIn the first book of the kings, (1Ki_7:26), mention is only made of 2000, but the lesser number was taken there, and here according as the measures proved afterwards, is declared.three thousand baths.

⁶ He made also ten caldrons, and put fiue on the right hand, and fiue on the left, to wash in them, and to clense in them that which apperteined to the burnt offrings: but the Sea was for the Priests to wash in.

⁷ And he made ten candlesticks of gold according toEven as they should be made.their form, and set [them] in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

⁸ And he made ten tables, & put them in the Temple, fiue on the right hand, & fiue on the left: and he made an hundreth basens of golde.

⁹ Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the greatCalled also the porch of Solomon, (Act_3:11). It is also taken for the temple where Christ preached, (Mat_21:23).court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

¹⁰ And he set the Sea on the right side Eastward toward the South.

¹¹ And Huram made pottes and besoms and basens, and Huram finished the worke that hee shoulde make for King Salomon for the house of God,

¹² To wit, two pillars, and the bowles & the chapiters on the top of ye two pillars, & two grates to couer the two bowles of the chapiters which were vpon the toppe of the pillars:

¹³ And foure hundreth pomegranates for the two grates, two rowes of pomegranates for euery grate to couer the two bowles of the chapiters, that were vpon the pillars.

¹⁴ He made also bases, and made caldrons vpon the bases:

¹⁵ And a Sea, and twelue bulles vnder it:

¹⁶ The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did HuramWhom Solomon reverenced for the gifts that God had given him, as a father; he had the same name as Huram the king of Tyrus, his mother was a Jewess, and his father a Tyrian. Some read, for his father, the author of this work.his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.

¹⁷ In the playne of Iorden did the King cast them in clay betweene Succoth & Zeredathah.

¹⁸ And Salomon made al these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of brasse could not be rekoned.

¹⁹ And Solomon made all the vessels that [were for] the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon theIn Hebrew, the bread of the faces because they were set before the ark, where the Lord showed his presence.shewbread [was set];

²⁰ Moreouer the candlestickes, with their lampes to burne them after the maner, before the oracle, of pure golde.

²¹ And the floures and the lampes, and the snuffers of gold, which was fine golde.

²² And the snuffers, and the basons, 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, [wereThat is, covered with plates of gold.of] gold.