1 Raja-raja 7:40-47

7:40 Hiram also made basins, shovels, and bowls. He ¹  finished all the work on the Lord’s temple he had been assigned by King Solomon. ²  7:41 He made ³  the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars, 7:42 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar), 7:43 the ten movable stands with their ten basins, 7:44 the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath, ⁴  7:45 and the pots, shovels, and bowls. All these items King Solomon assigned Hiram to make for the Lord’s temple ⁵  were made from polished bronze. 7:46 The king had them cast in earth foundries ⁶  in the region of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan. 7:47 Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. ⁷ 

[7:40]  ¹ tn Heb “Hiram.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[7:40]  ² tn Heb “Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for King Solomon [on] the house of the Lord.”

[7:41]  ³ tn The words “he made” are added for stylistic reasons.

[7:44]  ⁴ tn Heb “underneath ‘The Sea.’”

[7:45]  ⁵ tn Heb “which Hiram made for King Solomon [for] the house of the Lord.”

[7:46]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps, “molds.”

[7:47]  ⁷ tn Heb “Solomon left all the items, due to their very great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not sought.”