The chapter describes the temple's furnishings: the bronze altar, the large sea of cast metal on twelve oxen, the basins, the lampstands and the tables, along with the gold utensils.
1 Moreover he made an altar of brass , twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
2 Also he made a molten 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 under 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 .
4 It stood upon 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 .
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 held three thousand baths .
6 He made also ten lavers , and put five on the right hand , and five on the left , to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in .
7 And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form , and set them in the temple , five on the right hand , and five on the left .
8 He made also ten tables , and placed them in the temple , five on the right side , and five on the left . And he made an hundred basons of gold .
9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests , and the great court , and doors for the court , and overlaid the doors of them with brass .
10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end , over against the south .
11 And Huram made the pots , and the shovels , and the basons . And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God ;
12 To wit, the 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 ;
13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths ; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath , to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars .
14 He made also bases , and lavers made he upon the bases ;
15 One sea , and twelve oxen under it.
16 The pots 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 bright brass .
17 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah .
18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance : for the weight of the brass could not be found out .
19 And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God , the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;
20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps , that they should burn after the manner before the oracle , of pure gold ;
21 And the flowers , and the lamps , and the tongs , made he of gold , and that perfect gold ;
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 , were of gold .