2 Chronicles 4:1-5
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The Temple Furnishings
4 He made a bronze altar thirty feet long, thirty feet wide, and fifteen feet high.
2 He also made the sea of cast metal. It was round and fifteen feet from rim to rim. It was seven and a half feet high and forty-five feet in circumference. 3 Under the rim, figurines of cattle[a] completely encircled it, one every two inches, all the way around the sea. These cattle were in two rows, cast as one piece with the sea. 4 The sea stood on twelve cattle, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center. 5 The sea was three inches[b] thick. Its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held eighteen thousand gallons.[c]
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- 2 Chronicles 4:3 The parallel text in 1 Kings 7:24 reads gourds rather than cattle.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 Literally a handbreadth
- 2 Chronicles 4:5 Literally three thousand baths. In 1 Kings 7:26, it reads two thousand baths. Perhaps the two passages were using different standards for the bath or rounding off.
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