2 Chronicles 4

What happens in this chapter

The chapter lists the furnishings Solomon made for the house, beginning in the court with a bronze altar twenty cubits square and ten high, and the Sea on twelve oxen, three facing each quarter. The Sea was for the priests to wash in; the ten basins, five on each side, were for rinsing what belonged to the burnt offering. Inside, Solomon set ten gold lampstands and ten tables, five on each side, and made a hundred gold bowls; outside, the court of the priests and the great court with bronze-covered doors. The list ends with Huram's bronze work, the pillars and their capitals, pots, shovels and forks, so much that the bronze was never weighed, and the gold of the inner house down to its doors.

What the lab shows, and where to look

Most of this chapter is in the court and the holy place of Solomon's Temple lab. The bronze altar stands before the house with a ramp on the south side for the priests (plausible) and a stepped bronze casing with horns (a guess). The bronze Sea sits to the south-east, its oxen drawn as plain cast cattle, an artistic choice. Then go inside: The ten lampstands line the side walls near the inner sanctuary, drawn on the Tabernacle's pattern because the text gives no form, and The ten tables are drawn the same way. The inner court shows the court of the priests; its size is a reconstruction.

• The bronze altar · Solomon's Temple
• The bronze Sea · Solomon's Temple
• The ten lampstands · Solomon's Temple
• The ten tables · Solomon's Temple
• The inner court · Solomon's Temple

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