Contemporary English Version Anglicised

1 Kings 7:40-50 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

40. Hiram made pans for hot ashes, and also shovels and sprinkling bowls.This is a list of the bronze items that Hiram made for the Lord's temple:

41. two columns; two bowl-shaped caps for the tops of the columns; two chain designs on the caps;

42. four hundred pomegranates for the chain designs;

43. ten moveable stands; ten small bowls for the stands;

44. a large bowl; twelve bulls that held up the bowl;

45. pans for hot ashes, and also shovels and sprinkling bowls.Hiram made these bronze things for Solomon

46. near the River Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan by pouring melted bronze into clay moulds.

47. There were so many bronze things that Solomon never bothered to weigh them, and no one ever knew how much bronze was used.

48. Solomon gave orders to make the following temple furnishings out of gold: the altar; the table that held the sacred loaves of bread;

49. ten lampstands that went in front of the most holy place; flower designs; lamps and tongs;

50. cups, lamp snuffers, and small sprinkling bowls; dishes for incense; fire pans; and the hinges for the doors to the most holy place and the main room of the temple.