1 Kings 7:27-37

Christian Standard Bible

The Bronze Water Carts

²⁷ Then he made ten bronze water carts.^[a](A) Each water cart was 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4½ feet^[b] high. ²⁸ This was the design of the carts: They had frames; the frames were between the cross-pieces, ²⁹ and on the frames between the cross-pieces were lions, oxen, and cherubim.^(B) On the cross-pieces there was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging^[c] work. ³⁰ Each cart^(C) had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Underneath the four corners of the basin were cast supports, each next to a wreath. ³¹ And the water cart’s opening inside the crown on top was eighteen inches^[d] wide. The opening was round, made as a pedestal twenty-seven inches^[e] wide. On it were carvings, but their frames were square, not round. ³² There were four wheels under the frames, and the wheel axles were part of the water cart; each wheel was twenty-seven inches^[f] tall. ³³ The wheels’ design was similar to that of chariot wheels: their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal. ³⁴ Four supports were at the four corners of each water cart; each support was one piece with the water cart. ³⁵ At the top of the cart was a band nine inches^[g] high encircling it; also, at the top of the cart, its braces and its frames were one piece with it. ³⁶ He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees^(D) on the plates of its braces and on its frames, wherever each had space, with encircling wreaths. ³⁷ In this way he made the ten water carts using the same casting, dimensions, and shape for all of them.