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* King Solomon had a copper altar built . It was thirty feet square and fifteen feet high . * He also made a round tank of copper . It was seven and one half feet deep , fifteen feet in diameter , and forty-five feet in circumference . * All around the outer edge of the rim of the tank were two rows of decorations , one above the other . The decorations were in the shape of bulls . They had been cast all in one piece with the rest of the tank . * The tank rested on the backs of twelve copper bulls that faced outward . Three faced in each direction , north , west , south and east . * The sides of the tank were three inches thick . Its rim was like the rim of a cup , curving outward like the petals of a flower . The tank held about fifteen thousand gallons . * They also made ten basins , five to be placed on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side . They were to be used to rinse the parts of the animals that were burned as sacrifices . The water in the large tank was for the priests to use for washing . * They made ten gold lamp stands according to the usual pattern , and ten tables , and placed them in the main room of the Temple . * He made ten tables and put them in the temple . Five were on the south side and five on the north side . And he made one hundred gold bowls . * He also made the priests ’ courtyard and the large courtyard and its doors . He covered the doors with copper . * He set the pool on the south side in the southeast corner . * Huram also made the pots , shovels , and bowls . So Huram finished the work for King Solomon in God ’s Temple : * Two pillars , bowl-shaped crowns on top of the two pillars , and two sets of filigree to cover the two bowl-shaped crowns on top of the pillars , * four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of filigree , * ten stands and ten basins on the stands , * one pool and the twelve bulls under it , * pots , shovels , and three-pronged forks . Huram made all of them out of polished copper for Jehovah ’s Temple at King Solomon ’s request . * The king cast them in foundries in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zeredah . * Solomon made so many of these products that no one tried to determine how much the copper weighed . * Solomon made all the furnishings for God ’s Temple : the gold altar , the gold tables on which the bread of the presence was placed , * lamp stands and lamps of pure gold , * flowers , lamps , pure gold tongs , * snuffers , basins , dishes , incense burners of pure gold , the gold entrance to the temple , the gold doors of the most holy place , and the gold doors of the Temple .

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