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2 Chronicles 4: The Furnishings of Solomon’s Temple – Clear & Engaging Audio Bible Reading | The Lavish Bronze Altar, the Sea of Cast Metal, and the Details of the Temple

Experience the magnificent furnishings of Solomon’s Temple with this clear and engaging audio recording of 2 Chronicles 4. Delve into the lavish bronze altar that was created for the temple, the massive Sea of Cast Metal that was used for the priests’ ritual washing, and the intricate details that were crafted to make the temple a place of true beauty and worship. Perfect for study, reflection, or meditation, immerse yourself in this informative chapter and let the Scriptures come alive.

2 CHRONICLES 4 (NIV)

1 He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits
high.

2 He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits
from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to
measure around it.

3 Below the rim, figures of bulls encircled it—ten to a
cubit. The bulls were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

4 The 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.

5 It was a handbreadth in thickness, and
its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand
baths.

6 He 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.

7 He 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.

8 He 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.

9 He made the courtyard of the priests, and the large court and the doors for
the court, and overlaid the doors with bronze.

10 He placed the Sea on the
south side, at the southeast corner.

11 And 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:

12 the 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;

13 the 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);

14 the stands with their basins;

15 the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;

16 the 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.

17 The king had them cast in clay molds in the
plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.

18 All these things that
Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be
calculated.

19 Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in God’s temple:
the golden altar;
the tables on which was the bread of the Presence;

20 the lampstands of pure gold with their lamps, to burn in front of the inner
sanctuary as prescribed;

21 the gold floral work and lamps and tongs (they were solid gold);

22 the 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.