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2 Chronicles 4:11He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 8:64Ezek 43:13-171 Kgs 8:221 Kgs 9:252 Chr 1:52 Kgs 16:14-15Exod 27:1-8

2 Chronicles 4:22He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood 7½ high. Its circumference was 45 feet.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:23-26Exod 30:18-21Rev 7:14Titus 3:5Zech 13:1

2 Chronicles 4:33Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every 18 inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 9:9-101 Kgs 7:24-26Ezek 1:10Ezek 10:14Rev 4:7

2 Chronicles 4:44“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.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 9:15Eph 2:20Luke 24:46-47Mark 16:15Matt 16:18Matt 28:19-20Rev 21:14

2 Chronicles 4:55It was four fingers thick, and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:26

2 Chronicles 4:66He 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.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:38Exod 30:18-211 Kgs 7:40Ezek 40:38Ps 51:21 Cor 6:111 John 1:72 Chr 4:2Exod 29:4Heb 9:14

2 Chronicles 4:77He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:49Exod 25:31-401 Chr 28:12John 8:121 Chr 28:151 Chr 28:19Heb 8:5Matt 5:14-16Rev 1:20Zech 4:11-14

2 Chronicles 4:88He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made 100 gold bowls.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:481 Cor 10:21Exod 25:23-30Exod 37:10-16Ezek 44:16Isa 25:6Mal 1:12Zech 14:20Jer 52:18-19

2 Chronicles 4:99He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 6:362 Kgs 21:51 Kgs 7:12

2 Chronicles 4:1010He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:39

2 Chronicles 4:1111Huram Abi made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:141 Kgs 7:40-51

2 Chronicles 4:1212He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:412 Chr 3:15-17

2 Chronicles 4:1313the 400 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),Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:201 Kgs 7:42Exod 28:33-34Jer 52:23Song 4:13

2 Chronicles 4:1414the ten movable stands with their ten basins,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:27-43

2 Chronicles 4:1515the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

2 Chronicles 4:1616and 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.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 2:131 Chr 28:171 Kgs 7:13-142 Chr 4:111 Kgs 7:451 Sam 2:13-14Exod 27:3Exod 38:3Zech 14:20-21

2 Chronicles 4:1717The king had them cast in earth foundries in the region of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:46

2 Chronicles 4:1818Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 7:47Jer 52:201 Chr 22:141 Chr 22:3

2 Chronicles 4:1919Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 9:131 Chr 28:161 Kgs 7:48-502 Chr 26:16-182 Chr 36:102 Chr 36:182 Chr 4:82 Kgs 24:132 Kgs 25:13-15Dan 5:2-3

2 Chronicles 4:2020the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 4:7Exod 25:31-371 Kgs 6:16-171 Kgs 6:51 Kgs 8:6Exod 27:20-21Ps 28:2

2 Chronicles 4:2121the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 6:181 Kgs 6:291 Kgs 6:352 Chr 4:5Exod 25:31-40Exod 37:20

2 Chronicles 4:2222the 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.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 6:31-321 Kgs 7:502 Kgs 12:132 Kgs 25:14Exod 37:23Jer 52:18

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