圣殿的器具

所罗门造了一座铜坛,长九米,宽九米,高四点五米。 他又铸了一个圆形铜海,高二点二五米,直径四点五米,周长十三点五米。 铜海边缘下方有两圈牛的图案,每五十厘米有十头牛,是铸铜海的时候铸上的。 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,牛尾向内。 铜海厚八厘米,边如杯边,又如百合花,容量为六万六千升。 他又造了十个盆,五个放右边,五个放左边,用来清洗献燔祭所用之物。但铜海只供祭司沐浴使用。

他照着所定的式样,造了十个金灯台放在殿里,五个在右边,五个在左边; 又造了十张桌子放在殿里,五个在右边,五个在左边;还造了一百个金碗。 他又建了祭司院、大院及大院的门,门都包上铜。 10 铜海放在殿的右边,就是东南方。

11 户兰又造了盆、铲和碗。他为所罗门王完成了上帝殿里的工作。 12 户兰所制造的有:两根柱子,两个碗状的柱冠,两个装饰柱冠的网子, 13 用来装饰碗状柱冠、安在两个网子上的四百石榴——每个网子上两行; 14 盆座及盆座上的盆; 15 铜海和铜海下面的十二头铜牛; 16 盆、铲、肉叉及耶和华殿里的一切器具。这些都是巧匠户兰用磨亮的铜为所罗门王制造的。 17 这些都是照王的命令,在疏割和撒利但之间的约旦平原用泥模铸成的。 18 所罗门制造的器具极多,铜的重量无法统计。

19 所罗门又造了上帝殿里的金坛和放置供饼的桌子, 20 按规定放在内殿前的纯金的灯台和灯盏, 21 以及纯金的花饰、灯盏、火钳、 22 蜡剪、碗、碟和火鼎。殿门和至圣所的门也是金的。

Also Solomon made an altar of bronze, its top twenty by twenty cubits and its height ten cubits.

Also he made a round Sea of molten metal, ten cubits from brim to brim and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured around it.

Under it were figures of oxen encircling it, ten to a cubit. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece with it.

It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking north, three west, three south, three east; and the Sea rested upon them, and all their hind parts were inward.

Its thickness was a handbreadth; its brim was like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held 3,000 baths (measures).

He made also ten lavers in which to wash and put five on the right (south) side and five on the left (north). Such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them, but the Sea was for the priests to wash in.

And he made ten golden lampstands as directed and set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left.

He made also ten tables and placed them in the temple, five each on the right and left sides, and 100 basins of gold.

Moreover, he made the priests’ court, and the great court and doors for the court, and overlaid their doors with bronze.

10 And he set the Sea at the southeast corner of the house.

11 And Huram made the pots, shovels, and basins. So Huram finished the work of God’s house that he did for King Solomon:

12 The two pillars; the bowls; the capitals on top of the two pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals on top of the pillars;

13 And 400 pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals upon the pillars.

14 He made also bases or stands and lavers upon the bases;

15 One Sea and the twelve oxen under it;

16 The pots, shovels, and fleshhooks, and all their equipment Huram his trusted counselor made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.

17 In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.

18 Solomon made all these things in such great numbers that the weight of the bronze was not computed.

19 And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God: the golden altar also; and the tables for the showbread (the bread of the Presence);

20 And the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn before the inner sanctuary (the Holy of Holies) as directed;

21 The flowers, lamps, and tongs, of purest gold;

22 The snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and firepans, of pure gold; and for the temple entry, the inner doors for the Most Holy Place and the doors of the Holy Place were of gold.