1. Solomon had a bronze altar made that was nine metres square and four and a half metres high.
2. He also gave orders to make a large metal bowl called the Sea. It was four and a half metres across, just over two metres deep, and thirteen and a half metres around.
3. Its outer edge was decorated with two rows of carvings of bulls, ten bulls to about every forty-five centimetres, all made from the same piece of metal as the bowl.
4. The bowl itself sat on top of twelve bronze bulls, with three bulls facing outwards in each of four directions.