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Solomon's workers make things for the temple

Solomon's workers made a bronze altar. It was 9 metres long, 9 metres wide and 4 metres high. They used bronze to make a big bath which they called ‘the Sea’. It was in the shape of a circle 4½ metres across. It was 2½ metres deep. It was 14 metres around the outside.[a] All around its edge, below the top, there were two rows of images of things that looked like bulls. They were all part of the same piece of bronze as the big bath. There were 20 bulls for every metre around the edge.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:2 ‘The Sea’ was full of water. The priests used this to wash themselves when they went into the temple.