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cubits. He overlaid it with six hundred talents
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of fine gold. The weight of the nails was fifty
shekels of gold; and he overlaid the upper
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area with gold. In the Most Holy Place he 4:1 bronze altar. This is the main altar on
made two cherubim, fashioned by carving, which sacrifices were offered (the millennial
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and overlaid them with gold. The wings of temple altar, Ezek. 43:13–17). For comparison
the cherubim were twenty cubits in overall to the tabernacle’s altar, see Exodus 27:1–8;
length: one wing of the one cherub was five 38:1–7.If the cubit of 18 inches was used rather
cubits, touching the wall of the room, and the than the royal cubit of 21 inches,it would make
other wing was five cubits, touching the wing the altar 30 feet by 30 feet by 15 feet high.
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of the other cherub; one wing of the other
cherub was five cubits, touching the wall of 4:2 the Sea. This large laver was used for ritual
the room, and the other wing also was five cleansing. In Ezekiel’s millennial temple, the
cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub. laver will apparently be replaced by the waters
13 The wings of these cherubim spanned twen- that flow through the temple (Ezek.47:1–12).
ty cubits overall. They stood on their feet, and
they faced inward. And he made the veil of
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blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and wove line of thirty cubits measured its circumfer-
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cherubim into it. ence. And under it was the likeness of oxen
encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the
way around the Sea. The oxen were cast in two
rows, when it was cast. It stood on twelve
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oxen: three looking toward the north, three
3:10–13 two cherubim. This free-standing looking toward the west, three looking toward
set of cherubim was in addition to the more the south, and three looking toward the east;
diminutive set on the ark itself.
the Sea was set upon them, and all their back
parts pointed inward. It was a handbreadth
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from the Most Holy Place (the Holy of Holies), thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of
a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained three
which was entered once annually by the high
priest on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16). This thousand baths.
6 He also made ten lavers, and put five on the
highly limited access to the presence of God
was eliminated by the death of Christ, when right side and five on the left, to wash in them;
the veil in Herod’s temple was torn in two such things as they offered for the burnt offer-
from top to bottom (Matt. 27:51). It signified ing they would wash in them, but the Sea was
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that believers had immediate, full access to for the priests to wash in. And he made ten
God’s presence through their Mediator and lampstands of gold according to their design,
High Priest Jesus Christ, who was the perfect, and set them in the temple, five on the right
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once-for-all sacrifice (Heb. 3:14–16; 9:19–22). side and five on the left. He also made ten
tables, and placed them in the temple, five on
the right side and five on the left. And he made
15 Also he made in front of the temple two pil- one hundred bowls of gold.
lars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that 9 Furthermore he made the court of the
was on the top of each of them was five cubits. priests, and the great court and doors for the
16 He made wreaths of chainwork, as in the court; and he overlaid these doors with
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inner sanctuary, and put them on top of the pil- bronze. He set the Sea on the right side,
lars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, toward the southeast.
and put them on the wreaths of chainwork. 11 Then Huram made the pots and the shovels
17 Then he set up the pillars before the temple, and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the
one on the right hand and the other on the work that he was to do for King Solomon for
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left; he called the name of the one on the right the house of God: the two pillars and the
hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the
left Boaz. two pillars; the two networks covering the two
Moreover he made a bronze altar: twenty bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the
4 cubits was its length, twenty cubits its pillars; four hundred pomegranates for the
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width, and ten cubits its height. two networks (two rows of pomegranates for
Then he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten
2 each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped
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cubits from one brim to the other; it was com- capitals that were on the pillars); he also made
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pletely round. Its height was five cubits, and a carts and the lavers on the carts; one Sea and
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