The Furnishings for the Temple
(1 Kings 7.23-51)1 Solomon had a bronze altar made that was nine meters square and four and a half meters high. 2 He also gave orders to make a large metal bowl called the Sea. It was 4.5 meters across, just over two meters deep, and 13.5 meters around. 3 Its outer edge was decorated with two rows of carvings of bulls, ten bulls to about every 45 centimeters, all made from the same piece of metal as the bowl. 4 The bowl itself sat on top of twelve bronze bulls, with three bulls facing outward in each of four directions. 5 The sides of the bowl were 75 millimeters thick, and its rim was in the shape of a cup that curved outward like flower petals. The bowl held about 60,000 liters.
6 He also made ten small bowls and put five on each side of the large bowl. The small bowls were used to wash the animals that were burned on the altar as sacrifices, and the priests used the water in the large bowl to wash their hands.
7 Ten gold lampstands were also made according to the plans. Solomon placed these lampstands inside the temple, five on each side of the main room. 8 He also made ten tables and placed them in the main room, five on each side. And he made 100 small gold sprinkling bowls.
9 Solomon gave orders to build two courtyards: a smaller one that only priests could use and a larger one. The doors to these courtyards were covered with bronze. 10 The large bowl called the Sea was placed near the southeast corner of the temple.
11 Huram made shovels, sprinkling bowls, and pans for hot ashes. Here is a list of the other furnishings he made for God's temple: 12 two columns, two bowl-shaped caps for the tops of these columns, two chain designs on the caps, 13 400 pomegranates in two rows for the chain designs, 14 the stands and the small bowls, 15 the large bowl and the twelve bulls that held it up, 16 pans for hot ashes, as well as shovels and meat forks.
Huram made all these things out of polished bronze 17 by pouring melted bronze into the clay molds he had set up near the Jordan River, between Succoth and Zeredah.
18 There were so many bronze furnishings that no one ever knew how much bronze it took to make them.
19 Solomon also gave orders to make the following temple furnishings out of gold: the altar, the tables that held the sacred loaves of bread, 20 the lampstands and the lamps that burned in front of the most holy place, 21 flower designs, lamps and tongs, 22 lamp snuffers, small sprinkling bowls, ladles, fire pans, and the doors to the most holy place and the main room of the temple.
Tempļa iekārtojums
(1Ķēn 6:23–381Ķēn 7:13–51)1 Viņš darināja divdesmit elkoņus garu, divdesmit elkoņus platu un desmit elkoņus augstu vara altāri.
2 Tad no vara atlēja jūru – pilnīgi apaļu, desmit elkoņus no vienas malas līdz otrai, piecus elkoņus augstu, tās apkārtmērs bija trīsdesmit elkoņi. 3 Zem malas riņķī visapkārt tai bija vēršu tēli – desmit uz katru elkoni, visapkārt divās rindās, izlieti vienā lējumā. 4 Tā stāvēja uz divpadsmit vēršiem – trīs pagriezti uz ziemeļiem, trīs uz jūras pusi, trīs pagriezti uz dienvidiem, trīs uz saules lēkta pusi. Vara jūra bija uz tiem, bet to pēcpuses bija vērstas uz vidu. 5 Tās biezums bija plaukstas platumā, tās mala bija veidota kā kausa mala, kā lilijas zieds, tajā satilpa trīsdesmit tūkstoši batu .
6 Viņš darināja desmit katlus – piecus novietoja nama labajā un piecus kreisajā pusē, lai tajos mazgātu un apskalotu sadedzināmo upuri, bet priesteri mazgājās vara jūrā.
7 Viņš darināja desmit zelta gaismekļus, kā bija noteikts, un novietoja tos templī – piecus labajā, piecus kreisajā pusē. 8 Tad viņš taisīja desmit galdus un novietoja templī – piecus labajā, piecus kreisajā pusē. Un viņš darināja simts zelta laistāmos traukus.
9 Tad taisīja priesteru pagalmu un lielo pagalmu ar durvīm. Durvis pārklāja ar varu. 10 Vara jūru lika nama labajā stūrī dienvidaustrumos. 11 Hūrāms darināja katlus, liekšķeres un laistāmos traukus.
Tad Hūrāms bija galā ar visām lietām, ko darināja ķēniņa Sālamana Dieva namam: 12 divus stabus un kapiteļu kausus uz abiem stabu galiem un divus tīklojumus abu kausu pārsegšanai, tie bija uz stabu galiem, 13 un četrsimt granātābolus abiem tīklojumiem – granātāboli bija divās rindās uz katra tīklojuma, lai pārsegtu abus kapiteļa kausus, kas bija uz pīlāriem, 14 kā arī darināja pamatnes un uz pamatnēm katlus, 15 un vara jūru un divpadsmit vēršus zem tās, 16 un katlus, liekšķeres un dakšas – visi šie trauki, kurus darināja Hūrām-Abī ķēniņa Sālamana Kunga namam, bija no spodrināta vara. 17 Ķēniņš tos atlēja Jardānas ieloka mālainajā zemē starp Sukotu un Cerēdu. 18 Sālamans visiem šiem traukiem nenoteica vara svaru, jo to bija ļoti daudz.
19 Sālamans darināja visus Dieva nama traukus, zelta altāri un galdus, uz kuriem likt upurmaizi, 20 un iekšnama priekšā, kā noteikts, novietoja gaismekļu pamatnes un eļļas lukturīšus gaismai no tīra zelta. 21 Un ziedus, eļļas lukturīšus un knaibles no zelta – no tīra zelta! 22 Un dzirkles, laistāmie trauki, kausi un ogļu pannas bija no tīra zelta, arī nama iekšējās durvis svētumu svētumam un durvis templim bija no zelta!
