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A reconstruction of the Temple menorah

Era 6 · The First Kings2 Chronicles

The Bronze Sea, Basins and Lampstands

"A molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim"

· Lesson 4 of 41 · 8 min story

"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… it received and held three thousand baths."

"He made also ten lavers… 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."

A reconstruction of the Temple menorah
Modern reconstruction, not an ancient objectA modern reconstruction of the Temple menorah, made by the Temple Institute, Jerusalem.Image credit

Huram makes the pots, shovels and basins. "In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah." "Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD was finished."

Continue the journey

Journey of a Passage1 Kings 7:23–26: The bronze Sea: 2,000 or 3,000 baths?1 Kings 7:26 says the Sea held 2,000 baths; 2 Chronicles 4:5 says 3,000.
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Why this matters to the rest of Scripture

  • The parallel.
  • The tabernacle lampstand.