2 Chronicles 4:1-6:11

21st Century King James Version

4 Moreover he made an altar of brass: twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits he 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 f thirty cubits did compass it round about.

³ And under it was the similitude of oxen, which compassed it round about, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two ows 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 outh, 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 a handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and t 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 or 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 he 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 a hundred asins of gold.

⁹ Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with rass.

¹⁰ And he set the sea on the right side of the east end toward the south.

¹¹ And Hiram made the pots and the shovels and the basins. And Hiram finished the work that he was to do for King Solomon for he house of God,

¹² to wit: the two pillars, and the globes and the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to over the two globes of the capitals 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 globes of the apitals 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 Hiramabi make for King Solomon for the ouse of the Lord of bright brass.

¹⁷ In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

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 showbread as set;

²⁰ moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn according to the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

²¹ and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs made he of gold, and that of perfect gold;

²² and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold; and the entry of the house, the inner oors thereof for the Most Holy Place and the doors of the house of the temple were of gold.

5 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in all the things that David is father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments put he among the treasures of the house of God.

² Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of srael, unto Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the City of David, which is Zion.

³ Therefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.

⁴ And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark.

⁵ And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the abernacle; these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

⁶ Also King Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel who were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and xen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

⁷ And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the Most oly Place, even under the wings of the cherubims.

⁸ For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof bove.

⁹ And they drew out the staves of the ark so that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark in front of the oracle; but hey were not seen outside. And they are there unto this day.

¹⁰ There was nothing in the ark save the two tablets which Moses put therein at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with he children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

¹¹ And it came to pass when the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present were sanctified nd did not then wait by course),

¹² also the Levites who were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being rrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them a hundred and wenty priests sounding with trumpets—

¹³ it came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever,” that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord,

¹⁴ so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.

6 Then said Solomon: “The Lord hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

² But I have built a house of habitation for Thee, and a place for Thy dwelling for ever.”

³ And the king turned his face and blessed the whole congregation of Israel, and all the congregation of Israel stood.

⁴ And he said, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who hathwith His hands fulfilled that which He spoke with His mouth to my ather David, saying,

⁵ ‘Since the day that I brought forth My people out of the land of Egypt, I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build house in, that My name might be there, neither chose I any man to be a ruler over My people Israel;

⁶ but I have chosen Jerusalem, that My name might be there, and have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

⁷ Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

⁸ But the Lord said to David my father: ‘Inasmuch as it was in thine heart to build a house for My name, thou didst well in that t was in thine heart.

⁹ Notwithstanding, thou shalt not build the house; but thy son who shall come forth out of thy loins, he shall build the house or My name.’

¹⁰ The Lord therefore hath performed His word that He hath spoken; for I have risen up in the place of David my father and m set on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

¹¹ And in it have I put the ark wherein is the covenant of the Lord that He made with the children of Israel.”