The Bronze Altar and Molten Sea
(1 Kings 7:23–26)
He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. 1 1Ki 8:64Ezk 43:13-171Ki 8:221Ki 9:252Ch 1:52Ki 16:14-15Exo 27:1-8
He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference. 2 1Ki 7:23-26Exo 30:18-21Rev 7:14Tit 3:5Zec 13:1 Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea. 1Co 9:9-101Ki 7:24-26Ezk 1:10Ezk 10:14Rev 4:7
The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center. Act 9:15Eph 2:20Luk 24:46-47Mat 16:18Mat 28:19-20Mrk 16:15Rev 21:14 It was a handbreadth thick, 3 and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths. 4 1Ki 7:26
The Ten Basins, Lampstands, and Tables
(1 Kings 7:38–39)
He also made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. The parts of the burnt offering were rinsed in them, but the priests used the Sea for washing. 1Ki 7:38Exo 30:18-211Ki 7:40Ezk 40:38Psa 51:21Co 6:111Jn 1:72Ch 4:2
He made ten gold lampstands according to their specifications and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. 1Ki 7:49Exo 25:31-401Ch 28:12Jhn 8:121Ch 28:151Ch 28:19Heb 8:5Mat 5:14-16
Additionally, he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold bowls. 1Ki 7:481Co 10:21Exo 25:23-30Exo 37:10-16Ezk 44:16Isa 25:6Mal 1:12Zec 14:20
The Courts
He made the courtyard of the priests and the large court with its doors, and he overlaid the doors with bronze. 1Ki 6:362Ki 21:51Ki 7:12
He put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner. 1Ki 7:39
Completion of the Bronze Works
(1 Kings 7:40–47)
Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. 1Ki 7:141Ki 7:40-51
So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:
the two pillars; 1Ki 7:412Ch 3:15-17
the two bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars;
the two sets of network covering both bowls of the capitals atop the pillars;
the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars); 1Ki 7:201Ki 7:42Exo 28:33-34Jer 52:23Sng 4:13
the stands; 1Ki 7:27-43
the basins on the stands;
the Sea;
the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;
and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. 2Ch 2:131Ch 28:171Ki 7:13-142Ch 4:111Ki 7:451Sa 2:13-14Exo 27:3Exo 38:3
All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah. 5 1Ki 7:46 Solomon made all these articles in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze could not be determined. 1Ki 7:47Jer 52:201Ch 22:141Ch 22:3
Completion of the Gold Furnishings
(1 Kings 7:48–51)
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: Rev 9:131Ch 28:161Ki 7:48-502Ch 26:16-182Ch 36:102Ch 36:182Ch 4:82Ki 24:13
the golden altar;
the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;
the lampstands of pure gold and their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed; 2Ch 4:7Exo 25:31-371Ki 6:16-171Ki 6:51Ki 8:6Exo 27:20-21Psa 28:2
the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold—of purest gold; 1Ki 6:181Ki 6:291Ki 6:352Ch 4:5Exo 25:31-40Exo 37:20
the wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers of purest gold; 1Ki 6:31-321Ki 7:502Ki 12:132Ki 25:14Exo 37:23Jer 52:18
and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place 6as well as the doors of the main hall.