The Temple’s Furnishings
1He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.4:1 That is, about 30 feet long and wide and 15 feet high or about 9 meters long and wide and 4.5 meters high 2He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits4:2 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters high. It took a line of thirty cubits4:2 That is, about 45 feet or about 14 meters to measure around it. 3Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a cubit.4:3 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
4The Sea stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. 5It was a handbreadth4:5 That is, about 3 inches or about 7.5 centimeters in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.4:5 That is, about 18,000 gallons or about 66,000 liters
6He then made ten basins for washing and placed five on the south side and five on the north. In them the things to be used for the burnt offerings were rinsed, but the Sea was to be used by the priests for washing.
7He made ten gold lampstands according to the specifications for them and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.
8He made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. He also made a hundred gold sprinkling bowls.
9He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze. 10He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner.
11And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls.
So Huram finished the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:
12the two pillars;
the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
13the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);
14the stands with their basins;
15the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
16the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles.
All the objects that Huram-Abi made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of polished bronze. 17The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.4:17 Hebrew Zeredatha, a variant of Zarethan 18All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.
19Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God’s temple:
the golden altar;
the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;
20the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner sanctuary as prescribed;
21the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);
22the pure gold wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and censers; and the gold doors of the temple: the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall.
Huram-Abi laver de øvrige ting til templet
1.Kong. 7,23-26.38-51
1Huram lavede et stort bronzealter, 9 m langt, 9 m bredt og 4,5 m højt. 2Han støbte også en stor, rund vandbeholder, bronzehavet, 2,25 m dyb, 4,5 m i diameter og 13,5 m i omkreds. 3På ydersiden lige under kanten hele vejen rundt blev der lavet to rækker okselignende4,3 Der skulle nok have stået „græskarlignende” som i 1.Kong. 7,24. (Fejlen skyldes sikkert, at de to hebraiske ord ligner hinanden meget.) udsmykninger med ca. 5 cm mellem hver, formet i ét med resten af bronzehavet. 4Den stod på 12 bronzeokser, der vendte halerne mod hinanden, således at okserne tre og tre så i retning af de fire verdenshjørner. 5Beholderens tykkelse var en håndsbred, og kanten var bølgeformet som toppen af en liljeblomst. Den rummede 3000 bat.4,5 Sandsynligvis en kopieringsfejl. Der skulle nok have stået „2000 bat” som i 1.Kong. 7,26. En bat er som før nævnt ca. 22 liter.
6Derefter lavede han ti store vandfade til brug under rengøringen af offerdyrene. De blev anbragt tæt ved det store bronzehav, fem på hver side. Præsterne brugte bronzehavet, når de skulle vaske sig i forbindelse med den ceremonielle renselse.
7Så støbte han ti guldlysestager efter de anvisninger, han havde fået. De blev anbragt inde i tempelrummet—fem langs hver væg. 8Han lavede desuden ti borde og placerede dem langs templets væg, fem på sydsiden og fem på nordsiden. Han støbte også 100 stænkeskåle i guld.
9Dernæst blev præsternes indre forgård og den ydre forgård gjort færdige. Dørene til begge forgårde blev belagt med bronze. 10Bronzehavet blev placeret ved templets sydøstlige hjørne.
11Det var også Huram, der lavede alle de forskellige redskaber til brug ved offerhandlingerne: askebakker, skovle og stænkeskåle. Således fuldførte han den opgave, kong Salomon havde pålagt ham: 12De to søjler; de to liljeformede søjlehoveder med tilhørende fletværk 13og de 400 granatæbler; 14rullebordene med tilhørende vandfade; 15bronzehavet og dets fundament bestående af 12 okser; 16askebakkerne, skovlene, kødgaflerne og de øvrige redskaber. Alle disse genstande var lavet af blankpoleret bronze4,16 Eller: „kobber”. Det er det samme ord på hebraisk. 17-18og støbt i lerforme i Jordandalen mellem Sukkot og Zereda. Totalvægten af den bronze, der blev brugt, vides ikke; der gik simpelt hen så meget bronze til, at man opgav at veje det.
19Salomon fik al inventaret til brug inde i selve templet belagt med rent guld—både redskaberne, røgelsesalteret, bordet til de hellige brød, 20lysestagerne til lamperne, som skulle brænde i rummet foran det allerhelligste ifølge forskrifterne, 21blomsterdekorationerne, lamperne, tængerne, 22vægesaksene, stænkeskålene, fadene og bakkerne til gløder. Både dørene ind til det allerhelligste rum og dørene ved templets hovedindgang blev belagt med guld.
