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Mobiliario del templo

Salomón también hizo un altar de bronce de nueve metros de largo, por nueve de ancho y cuatro metros y medio de alto. Hizo luego un enorme tanque redondo de hierro fundido, que medía cuatro metros y medio de diámetro. Desde el suelo hasta su orilla, la fuente medía dos metros veinticinco centímetros. Su circunferencia era de trece metros y medio. Descansaba sobre dos hileras de bueyes de metal, separados por una distancia de cuatro o cinco centímetros. El estanque y los bueyes fueron moldeados y fundidos de una sola pieza. Los bueyes eran doce, dispuestos cola a cola, tres de frente al norte, tres al poniente, tres al sur y tres al oriente. Las paredes del tanque eran de unos ocho centímetros de espesor, y sus bordes eran como el cáliz de un lirio. Tenía una capacidad de sesenta y seis mil litros de agua.

Construyó también diez fuentes para lavar las ofrendas, cinco a la derecha del estanque grande y cinco a la izquierda. Para lavarse ellos mismos, los sacerdotes utilizaban el estanque y no las fuentes.

Cumpliendo minuciosamente las instrucciones de Dios, hizo diez candelabros de oro, y los colocó en el templo, cinco contra la pared de la derecha y cinco contra la de la izquierda. Construyó, asimismo, diez mesas, y colocó cinco junto al muro de la derecha y cinco junto al de la izquierda, y moldeó cien tazones de oro sólido. Construyó luego un atrio para los sacerdotes, y también un atrio para el público, y las puertas de estos atrios estaban revestidas de bronce. 10 La gran fuente estaba en la esquina derecha, que da hacia el sureste. 11 Hiram Abí hizo también las ollas, palas y palanganas necesarias para los sacrificios.

De esta manera dio por terminado el trabajo que le había señalado el rey Salomón:

12-16 La construcción de las dos columnas;

los dos capiteles sobresalientes en la parte alta de las columnas;

los dos juegos de cadenas sobre los capiteles;

las cuatrocientas granadas que colgaban de los dos juegos de cadenas que estaban sobre los capiteles;

los cimientos para las fuentes, y las fuentes mismas;

la gran fuente y los doce bueyes sobre los cuales descansaba;

los calderos, las tenazas, y los tenedores.

Todos estos utensilios para el templo del Señor, los hizo Hiram Abí de bronce pulido, tal como el rey Salomón le encomendó. 17-18 El rey mandó fundirlos en moldes de arcilla en el valle del Jordán, entre Sucot y Saretán. Era tan grande la cantidad de bronce que se utilizó, que no se pudo determinar su peso.

19 Salomón también mandó a hacer todos los demás utensilios que se usarían en el templo de Dios. De oro puro se hicieron: el altar, la mesa para los panes de la Presencia, 20 los candelabros con sus lámparas, para encenderlas en frente del Lugar Santísimo, tal como está estipulado; 21 las figuras de flores, las lámparas y las tenazas, igualmente de oro puro; 22 las despabiladeras, los aspersorios, las cucharas, los incensarios; la entrada del templo, la puerta principal y las puertas interiores que conducen al Lugar Santísimo y la puerta de la entrada principal del templo. Todo esto fue hecho de oro puro.

Furnishings of the Temple(A)

Moreover he made (B)a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height.

(C)Then he made the [a]Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. (D)And under it was the likeness of oxen encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The oxen were cast in two rows, when it was cast. It stood on twelve (E)oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward. It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained [b]three thousand baths.

He also made (F)ten lavers, and put five on the right side and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as they offered for the burnt offering they would wash in them, but the [c]Sea was for the (G)priests to wash in. (H)And he made ten lampstands of gold (I)according to their design, and set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. (J)He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred (K)bowls of gold.

Furthermore (L)he made the court of the priests, and the (M)great court and doors for the court; and he overlaid these doors with bronze. 10 (N)He set the Sea on the right side, toward the southeast.

11 Then (O)Huram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of God: 12 the two pillars and (P)the bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the pillars; 13 (Q)four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on the pillars); 14 he also made (R)carts and the lavers on the carts; 15 one Sea and twelve oxen under it; 16 also the pots, the shovels, the forks—and all their articles (S)Huram his [d]master craftsman made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.

17 In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between Succoth and [e]Zeredah. 18 (T)And Solomon had all these articles made in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze was not determined.

19 Thus (U)Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of God: the altar of gold and the tables on which was (V)the showbread; 20 the lampstands with their lamps of pure gold, to burn (W)in the prescribed manner in front of the inner sanctuary, 21 with (X)the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold, of purest gold; 22 the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the censers of pure gold. As for the entry of the [f]sanctuary, its inner doors to the Most Holy Place, and the doors of the main hall of the temple, were gold.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:2 Great laver or basin
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:5 About 8,000 gallons; two thousand, 1 Kin. 7:26
  3. 2 Chronicles 4:6 Great basin
  4. 2 Chronicles 4:16 Lit. father
  5. 2 Chronicles 4:17 Zaretan, 1 Kin. 7:46
  6. 2 Chronicles 4:22 Lit. house

The Furnishings of Solomon’s Temple

And he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits was its length, and twenty cubits was its width, and ten cubits was its height. Then he made the sea of molten metal, from brim to brim it was ten cubits, completely round. And it was five cubits in height, and its circumference measured[a] thirty cubits. Under it were figures of oxen all around it, ten cubits high, encircling the sea all around. The oxen were in two rows cast as one piece with it.[b] It was standing upon twelve oxen, three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set upon them from above, and all their hindquarters faced inward.[c] And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was like the working of the lip of a cup, the blossom of a lily. And it held three thousand baths. And he made ten basins. And he set five on the south and five on the north in which to wash; they washed off the work of the burnt offering in them, but the sea was for the priests to wash therein. And he made ten golden lampstands according to their custom, and he set them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north. And he made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south and five on the north. And he made a hundred drinking bowls of gold. And he made the courtyard of the priests and the great outer courtyard and the doors for the outer court. And he overlaid their doors with bronze. 10 And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the temple. 11 And Huram[d] made the pots, the shovels, and the drinking bowls. So Hiram[e] finished making the work that he made on the house of God for King Solomon: 12 the two columns, the bowls, and the two capitals on top of the columns, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on top of the columns, 13 and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for the latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were before the columns. 14 And he made the water carts, and he made the basins on the water carts, 15 and the one sea and the twelve oxen underneath it.

16 And Huram-abi made for King Solomon the pots, the shovels, the three-pronged meat forks, and all the utensils of polished bronze for the house of Yahweh. 17 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay soil between Succoth and Zeredah. 18 Solomon made all these utensils in great abundance, for the weight of the bronze could not be determined. 19 So Solomon made all the objects that were in the house of God: the altar of gold; the tables upon which was the bread of the presence; 20 the lampstands, and the lamps for burning according to the custom before the inner sanctuary, of solid gold; 21 and the blossoms, the lamps, and the tongs that were of solid gold; 22 and the snuffers, the drinking bowls, the dishes, and the firepans, of solid gold; and the entrance to the house, the inner doors to the most holy place, and the doors to the house of the temple were of gold.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:2 Literally “and it measured a line all around it”
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:3 Literally “molten with its casting”
  3. 2 Chronicles 4:4 Literally “into the house”
  4. 2 Chronicles 4:11 This is the spelling in Hebrew, though many translations have “Hiram”
  5. 2 Chronicles 4:11 The spelling (“Hiram”) is different here than in the previous occurrences