¹² On the altar^(A) of the Lord that he had built in front of the portico, Solomon sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord,

The Temple’s Furnishings^(A)

4 He made a bronze altar^(B) twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.^[a]

²³ and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.^(A)

¹⁶ He then brought me into the inner court^(A) of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar,^(B) were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun^(C) in the east.^(D)

⁸ When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of^[a] Oded the prophet, he took courage. He removed the detestable idols^(A) from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he had captured^(B) in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired the altar^(C) of the Lord that was in front of the portico of the Lord’s temple.

¹⁷ the weight of pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls^(A) and pitchers; the weight of gold for each gold dish; the weight of silver for each silver dish;