2 Chronicles 4:16
All the metalwork Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord was of polished bronze.
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17The king cast them in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zeredah.
Cross References
Exodus 38:3He made all its utensils: buckets for removing ashes, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans. He made all its utensils of bronze.
1 Kings 7:13King Solomon sent for Hiram from Tyre.
1 Chronicles 18:8David also took a large quantity of bronze from Tibhath and from Cun, towns that had belonged to Hadadezer. Solomon used that bronze to make the bronze sea, the columns, and the various bronze objects.
2 Chronicles 2:13I'm sending you Hiram-Abi, a master craftsman who knows and understands what he's doing.
Zechariah 14:20On that day the bells worn by horses will be engraved with the words “Holy to the Lord.” The household cooking pots used in the Lord's Temple will be as holy as the bowls used on the altar in the presence of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 4:12-22
11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; 12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; 13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.… Read the whole commentary →