历代志下 4
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
建造殿中各器皿(A)
4 他又做了一座铜坛，长九公尺，宽九公尺，高四公尺半。 2 又铸造了一个铜海，直径有四公尺半，是圆形的，高两公尺两公寸，圆周有十三公尺两公寸。 3 铜海底下四周有形状像牛的装饰物；每四十五公分十个，共分二行，是和铜海一体铸成的。 4 有十二头铜牛驮着铜海：三头向北，三头向西，三头向南，三头向东。铜海在牛背上面，牛尾部向内。 5 铜海厚七公分半，边缘像杯边的做法，形状似百合花，容量有六万公升。 6 他又做了十个洗濯盆：五个放在铜海的右边，五个放在左边，用来清洗东西；献燔祭所用的东西要在盆内清洗，但铜海是给祭司洗濯的。
7 又照着规定的样式做了十个金灯台，放在殿内；五个在右边，五个在左边。 8 又做了十张桌子，安放在殿内；五张在右边，五张在左边。又做了一百个金碗。 9 又建造祭司院、大院和大院的门；门都包上铜。 10 又把铜海放在殿的右边，就是东南方。
11 户兰又做了锅、铲和碗。这样，户兰为所罗门王完成了神殿的工程， 12 就是两根柱子和在柱子上面两个碗形柱顶，以及两个网子，遮盖柱子上面两个碗形的柱顶， 13 又有四百个石榴，安放在两个网子上，每个网子有两行石榴，遮盖柱子上头两个碗形的柱顶。 14 又做了十个盆座和盆座上的十个洗濯盆， 15 还有一个铜海和铜海底下的十二头铜牛。 16 锅、铲、肉叉和一切相关的器皿，都是户兰用磨光的铜给所罗门王，为耶和华的殿所做的。 17 是王在约旦平原，在疏割和撒利但之间，用胶泥模铸成的。 18 所罗门所做的这一切器皿，数量很多；铜的重量无法估计。
19 所罗门又做了神殿里的一切器具，就是金坛和放陈设饼的桌子， 20 用纯金做的灯台和灯盏，按定例在内殿门前燃点， 21 还有灯花、灯盏和烛剪，都是精金做的。 22 又有剪刀、盘子、调羹和火鼎，都是用精金做的。殿门，就是进入至圣所里面的门和正殿的门，都是金的。
2 Chronicles 4
Contemporary English Version
The Furnishings for the Temple
(1 Kings 7.23-51)
4 (A) 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 (B) 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 (C) 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 (D) 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[a] 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,[b] 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.
2 Chronicles 4
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 4
1 Then Solomon made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high. 2 After that, he made the sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, ten cubits from rim to rim, and five cubits high.
3 Under the sea and completely encircling the thirty cubits of its circumference there was a ring of figures of oxen in two rows, ten to the cubit. 4 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The hindquarters of each faced inward, and the sea was set on them. 5 It was a hand’s breadth in thickness, and its rim was like that of a cup—lily-shaped. It could hold three thousand baths.[a]
6 He also made ten basins for washing, placing five on the right and five on the left. These were to be employed to rinse what would be used for the burnt offerings. However, the sea was for the priests to wash in.
7 Then he made ten lampstands of gold as prescribed and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. 8 He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left, as well as one hundred basins of gold.[b]
9 Next he made the court of the priests and the great courtyard with its gates. After he had overlaid the doors with bronze, 10 he placed the sea off to the southeast on the right-hand side of the temple.
11 Meanwhile Huram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. He thus completed all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon on the temple of God: 12 the two pillars, the bowls, and the two capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two sets of filigree to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; 13 the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, with two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover two bowl-shaped capitals surmounting the two pillars; 14 the ten stands and the basins on the stands; 15 the one sea and the twelve oxen that supported it; 16 likewise the pots, the shovels, and the basins—all of these articles Huram-abi made of burnished bronze cast for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.
17 Then the king had them cast in the foundry between Succoth and Zeredah in the plain of the Jordan. 18 Solomon made all these objects in great quantities, and as a result, the weight of the bronze was not determined.
19 Solomon had all of these articles made for the Lord God: the golden altar, the tables for the bread of the Presence, 20 [c]the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold to burn before the inner sanctuary as prescribed; 21 the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of the purest gold; 22 the snuffers, the bowls, the ladles, and the firepans of pure gold. As for the entrance to the temple, the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and the doors to the nave of the temple were of gold.
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 Baths: a liquid measure equaling approximately 40 quarts. The number of baths stated in 1 Ki 7:26 is 2000.
- 2 Chronicles 4:8 The interior courtyard where the altar of holocausts was placed.
- 2 Chronicles 4:20 There is no such thing as too much gold when it came to building a permanent place for the Israelites to worship the Lord. This was a testimony to their great love and respect, and perhaps their guilt for worshiping idols. Later these detailed plans would be used to reconstruct the temple that would be destroyed by the Babylonians.
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