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1 Kings 7:30-48 English Standard Version (ESV)

30. Moreover, each stand had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and at the four corners were supports for a basin. The supports were cast with wreaths at the side of each.

31. Its opening was within a crown that projected upward one cubit. Its opening was round, as a pedestal is made, a cubit and a half deep. At its opening there were carvings, and its panels were square, not round.

32. And the four wheels were underneath the panels. The axles of the wheels were of one piece with the stands, 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 at the four corners of each stand. The supports were of one piece with the stands.

35. And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.

36. And on the surfaces of its stays and on its panels, he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around.

37. After this manner he made the ten stands. All of them were cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.

38. And he made ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.

39. And he set the stands, five on the south side of the house, and five on the north side of the house. And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.

40. Hiram also made the pots, 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, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;

42. and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

43. the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands;

44. and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath the sea.

45. Now the pots, the shovels, and the basins, all these vessels in the house of the Lord, which Hiram made for King Solomon, were of burnished bronze.

46. In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

47. And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.

48. So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the Lord: the golden altar, the golden table for the bread of the Presence,