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。

建造殿中各器皿(A)

他又做了一座铜坛,长九公尺,宽九公尺,高四公尺半。 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。 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。 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。 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。 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。

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。 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。 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。

The Furnishings for the Temple

(1 Kings 7.23-51)

(A) Solomon had a bronze altar made that was nine meters square and four and a half meters high. 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. 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. The bowl itself sat on top of twelve bronze bulls, with three bulls facing outward in each of four directions. 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.

(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.

(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. (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.

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.

Footnotes

  1. 4.13 pomegranates: See the note at 3.16.
  2. 4.19 sacred loaves of bread: This bread was offered to the Lord and was a symbol of the Lord's presence in the temple. It was put out on special tables, and was replaced with fresh bread every week (see Leviticus 24.5-9).

Il fit un autel d'airain, long de vingt coudées, large de vingt coudées, et haut de dix coudées.

Il fit la mer de fonte. Elle avait dix coudées d'un bord à l'autre, une forme entièrement ronde, cinq coudées de hauteur, et une circonférence que mesurait un cordon de trente coudées.

Des figures de boeufs l'entouraient au-dessous de son bord, dix par coudée, faisant tout le tour de la mer; les boeufs, disposés sur deux rangs, étaient fondus avec elle en une seule pièce.

Elle était posée sur douze boeufs, dont trois tournés vers le nord, trois tournés vers l'occident, trois tournés vers le midi, et trois tournés vers l'orient; la mer était sur eux, et toute la partie postérieure de leur corps était en dedans.

Son épaisseur était d'un palme; et son bord, semblable au bord d'une coupe, était façonné en fleur de lis. Elle pouvait contenir trois mille baths.

Il fit dix bassins, et il en plaça cinq à droite et cinq à gauche, pour qu'ils servissent aux purifications: on y lavait les diverses parties des holocaustes. La mer était destinée aux ablutions des sacrificateurs.

Il fit dix chandeliers d'or, selon l'ordonnance qui les concernait, et il les plaça dans le temple, cinq à droite et cinq à gauche.

Il fit dix tables, et il les plaça dans le temple, cinq à droite et cinq à gauche. Il fit cent coupes d'or.

Il fit le parvis des sacrificateurs, et le grand parvis avec ses portes, dont il couvrit d'airain les battants.

10 Il plaça la mer du côté droit, au sud-est.

11 Huram fit les cendriers, les pelles et les coupes. Ainsi Huram acheva l'ouvrage que le roi Salomon lui fit faire pour la maison de Dieu:

12 deux colonnes, avec les deux chapiteaux et leurs bourrelets sur le sommet des colonnes; les deux treillis, pour couvrir les deux bourrelets des chapiteaux sur le sommet des colonnes;

13 les quatre cents grenades pour les deux treillis, deux rangées de grenades par treillis, pour couvrir les deux bourrelets des chapiteaux sur le sommet des colonnes;

14 les dix bases, et les dix bassins sur les bases;

15 la mer, et les douze boeufs sous elle;

16 les cendriers, les pelles et les fourchettes. Tous ces ustensiles que le roi Salomon fit faire à Huram Abi pour la maison de l'Éternel étaient d'airain poli.

17 Le roi les fit fondre dans la plaine du Jourdain, dans un sol argileux, entre Succoth et Tseréda.

18 Salomon fit tous ces ustensiles en si grande quantité que l'on ne vérifia pas le poids de l'airain.

19 Salomon fit encore tous les autres ustensiles pour la maison de Dieu: l'autel d'or; les tables sur lesquelles on mettait les pains de proposition;

20 les chandeliers et leurs lampes d'or pur, qu'on devait allumer selon l'ordonnance devant le sanctuaire,

21 les fleurs, les lampes et les mouchettes d'or, d'or très pur;

22 les couteaux, les coupes, les tasses et les brasiers d'or pur; et les battants d'or pour la porte de l'intérieur de la maison à l'entrée du lieu très saint, et pour la porte de la maison à l'entrée du temple.

Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.

¶ Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.

¶ He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: 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 candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.

¶ Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

10 And he set the sea on the right side of the east end, over against the south.

11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God;

12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars;

13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.

14 He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;

15 One sea, and twelve oxen under it.

16 The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the Lord of bright brass.

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

18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

19 ¶ And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;

20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;

21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold;

22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.