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19 The captain of the guards took away the bowls, firepans, sprinkling basins, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls(A) – whatever was gold or silver.

20 As for the two pillars, the one basin, with the twelve bronze oxen under it, and the water carts[a] that King Solomon had made for the Lord’s temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. 21 One pillar was 8 metres[b] tall, had a circumference of 5.4 metres,[c] was hollow – four fingers thick – 

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Footnotes

  1. 52:20 LXX, Syr; MT reads oxen under the water carts
  2. 52:21 Lit 18 cubits
  3. 52:21 Lit 12 cubits