# 2 Chronicles 04 📖: The Temple Furnishings [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-2 Chronicles Overview]] | [[2 Chronicles 03]] | [[2 Chronicles 05]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) [[#Verse 01.]] He made a bronze altar, 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.  [[#Verse 02.]] He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” It measured 15 feet from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood 7½ high. Its circumference was 45 feet. [[#Verse 03.]] Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every 18 inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”  [[#Verse 04.]] “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.  [[#Verse 05.]] 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.  [[#Verse 06.]] 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.” [[#Verse 07.]] He made ten gold lampstands according to specifications and put them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left.  [[#Verse 08.]] He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made 100 gold bowls.  [[#Verse 09.]] He made the courtyard of the priests and the large enclosure and its doors; he plated their doors with bronze.  [[#Verse 10.]] He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner. [[#Verse 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.  [[#Verse 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,  [[#Verse 13.]] the 400 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),  [[#Verse 14.]] the ten movable stands with their ten basins,  [[#Verse 15.]] the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath,  [[#Verse 16.]] and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord’s temple were made from polished bronze.  [[#Verse 17.]] The king had them cast in earth foundries in the region of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.  [[#Verse 18.]] Solomon made so many of these items they did not weigh the bronze. [[#Verse 19.]] Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence was kept,  [[#Verse 20.]] the pure gold lampstands and their lamps which burned as specified at the entrance to the inner sanctuary,  [[#Verse 21.]] the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,  [[#Verse 22.]] the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. The bronze altar was 20 cubits square and 10 cubits high (4:1), roughly 30 by 30 by 15 feet. 2. The "Sea" was a huge cast bronze basin 10 cubits across (4:2), about 15 feet in diameter. 3. The Sea rested on twelve bronze oxen, three facing each direction (4:4). 4. Chronicles says the Sea held 3,000 baths of water (4:5). 5. The Sea was for the priests to wash in, while ten smaller basins were for rinsing the burnt offerings (4:6). 6. Solomon made ten gold lampstands and ten tables (4:7-8), where the tabernacle had one lampstand and one table. 7. The bronze was cast in clay molds in the Jordan plain between Succoth and Zeredah (4:17). 8. So much bronze was used that its weight was never determined (4:18). 9. Huram the craftsman made the bronze pots, shovels, and bowls (4:11, 16). 10. The doors of the inner sanctuary and main hall were overlaid with gold (4:22). ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the once-for-all sacrifice the great bronze altar pointed toward (Hebrews 10:10-12). He also washes His people clean (Ephesians 5:25-26), fulfilling what the bronze Sea and basins pictured (4:2-6). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. The bronze altar stood at the center of the temple's daily worship (4:1). What place does meeting with God hold in your daily life? 2. The priests washed in the Sea before serving (4:6). What does this teach about coming to God with clean hands and a pure heart? 3. Every lampstand, table, and bowl had a purpose (4:7-8, 19-22). What does this say about the details of our worship and service? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 1: Solomon makes a large bronze altar. - 📖 verses 2-6: The great bronze Sea and the basins used for washing. - 📖 verse 7: Ten gold lampstands are placed in the temple. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[1 Kings 07#Verse 23.|1 Kings 7:23-51]] - The parallel account of the temple furnishings. - 🔗 [[Exodus 30#Verse 17.|Exodus 30:17-21]] - The bronze basin for washing in the tabernacle. - 🔗 [[Hebrews 10#Verse 10.|Hebrews 10:10-12]] - Christ offered one sacrifice for sins forever. - 🔗 [[Hebrews 13#Verse 10.|Hebrews 13:10]] - We have an altar. - 🔗 [[Ephesians 05#Verse 25.|Ephesians 5:25-26]] - Christ cleanses the church by the washing of water with the word. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[2 Chronicles 04 - SOAP|Make An Altar]] ## 📂 Internal Notes