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1 Kings 7:31-41 Amplified Bible (AMP)

31. Its mouth within the capital projected upward a cubit, and its mouth was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half. Also upon its mouth were carvings, and their borders were square, not round.

32. Under the borders were four wheels, and the axles of the wheels were one piece with the base. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

33. The wheels were made like a chariot wheel: their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.

34. There were four supports to the four corners of each base; the supports were part of the base itself.

35. On the top of the base there was a circular elevation half a cubit high, and on the top of the base its stays and panels were of one piece with it.

36. And on the surface of its stays and its panels Hiram carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.

37. Thus he made the ten bases. They all had one casting, one measure, and one form.

38. Then he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver held forty baths and measured four cubits, and there was one laver on each of the ten bases.

39. He put the bases five on the south side of the house and five on the north side; and he set the Sea at the southeast corner of the house.

40. Hiram made the lavers, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the Lord:

41. The two pillars; and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the two pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls;