New English Translation

2 Chronicles 4:4-15 New English Translation (NET)

4. “The Sea” stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.

5. It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.

6. He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.”

7. He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.

8. He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls.

9. He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze.

10. He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.

11. Huram Abi made the pots, shovels, and bowls. He finished all the work on God’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon.

12. He made the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,

13. the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),

14. the ten movable stands with their ten basins,

15. the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath,