¹⁷ King Ahaz detached the panels from the stands and removed the basins from them; he also took down the bronze sea from the bronze oxen that supported it, and set it on a stone pavement.

^15 [a](A)He fashioned two bronze columns, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference. ¹⁶ He also made two capitals cast in bronze, to be placed on top of the columns, each of them five cubits high. ¹⁷ There were meshes made like netting and braid made like chains for the capitals on top of the columns, seven for each capital. ^18 [b]He also cast pomegranates, two rows around each netting to cover the capital on top of the columns. ¹⁹ The capitals on top of the columns (in the porch) were made like lilies, four cubits high. ²⁰ And the capitals on the two columns, both above and adjoining the bulge where it crossed out of the netting, had two hundred pomegranates in rows around each capital. ²¹ He set up the columns at the temple porch; one he set up to the south, and called it Jachin, and the other to the north, and called it Boaz.^{[c] 22} The top of the columns was made like a lily. Thus the work on the columns was completed.

²³ Then he made the molten sea;^[d] it was made with a circular rim, and measured ten cubits across, five in height, and thirty in circumference. ²⁴ Under the brim, gourds encircled it for ten cubits around the compass of the sea; the gourds were in two rows and were cast in one mold with the sea. ²⁵ This rested on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east, with their haunches all toward the center; upon them was set the sea. ²⁶ It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim resembled that of a cup, being lily-shaped. Its capacity was two thousand baths.^[e]

²⁷ He also made ten stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four wide, and three high. ²⁸ When these stands were constructed, panels were set within the framework. ²⁹ On the panels within the frames there were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the frames likewise, above and below the lions and oxen, there were wreaths in hammered relief. ³⁰ Each stand had four bronze wheels and bronze axles. The four legs of each stand had cast braces, which were under the basin; they had wreaths on each side. ³¹ The mouth of the basin was inside, and a cubit above, the crown, whose opening was round, made like a receptacle, a cubit and a half in depth. There was carved work at the opening, on panels that were square, not circular. ³² The four wheels were below the paneling, and the axletrees of the wheels and the stand were of one piece. Each wheel was a cubit and a half high. ³³ The wheels were constructed like chariot wheels; their axletrees, rims, spokes, and hubs were all cast. ³⁴ The four braces reached the four corners of each stand, and formed part of the stand. ³⁵ At the top of the stand there was a raised collar half a cubit high, and the handles and panels on top of the stand formed part of it. ³⁶ On the flat ends of the handles and on the panels, wherever there was a bare space, cherubim, lions, and palm trees were carved, as well as wreaths all around. ³⁷ This was how he made the ten stands, all of the same casting, the same size, the same shape. ³⁸ He made ten bronze basins, each four cubits in diameter with a capacity of forty baths, one basin atop each of the ten stands.

³⁹ He placed the stands, five on the south side of the house and five on the north. The sea he placed off to the southeast from the south side of the house.

¹⁹ For thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the pillars, the sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels remaining in this city, ²⁰ which Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, did not take when he exiled Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem— ²¹ thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels remaining in the house of the Lord, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem:^{(A) 22} To Babylon they shall go, and there they shall remain, until the day I look for them—oracle of the Lord; then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.