s. He also made
ten large round brass vessels, which were the lavers themselves, each of
which contained forty baths; [10] for it had its height four cubits,
and its edges were as much distant from each other. He also placed these
lavers upon the ten bases that were called Mechonoth; and he set five
of the lavers on the left side of the temple [11] which was that side
towards the north wind, and as many on the right side, towards the
south, but looking towards the east; the same [eastern] way he also set
the sea Now he appointed the sea to be for washing the hands and the
feet of the priests, when they entered into the temple and were to
ascend the altar, but the lavers to cleanse the entrails of the beasts
that were to be burnt-offerings, with their feet also.

7. He also made a brazen altar, whose length was twenty cubits, and its
breadth the same, and its height ten, for the burnt-offerings. He
also made all its vessels of brass, the pots, and the shovels, and the
basons; and besides these, the snuffers and the tongs, and all its other
vessels, he made of brass, and such brass as was in splendor and beauty
like gold. The king also dedicated a great number of tables, but one
that was large and made of gold, upon which they set the loaves of God;
and he made ten thousand more that resembled them, but were done after
another manner, upon which lay the vials and the cups; those of gold
were twenty thousand, those of silver were forty thousand. He also made
ten thousand candlesticks, according to the command of Moses, one of
which he dedicated for the temple, that it might burn in the day time,
according to the law; and one table with loaves upon it, on the north
side of the temple, over against the candlestick; for this he set on the
south side, but the golden altar stood between them. All these vessels
were contained in that part of the holy house, which was forty cubits
long, and were before the veil of that most secret place wherein the ark
was to be set.

8. The king also made pouring vessels, in number eighty thousand, and a
hundred thousand golden vials, and twice as many silver vials: of golden
dishes, in order therein to offer kneaded fine flour at the altar, there
were eighty thousand, and twice as many of silver. Of large basons also,
wherein they mixed fine flour with oil, sixty thousand of gold, and
twice as many of silver. Of the measures like those which Moses called
the Hin and the Assaron, [a tenth deal,