The Temple's Furnishings

                                                                 2 Chronicles 4:1-10

 

May 14, 2023

 

The Temple's Furnishings

He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.  Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.  Under it were figures of gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.  It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.  Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths. He also made ten basins in which to wash and set five on the south side, and five on the north side. In these, they were to rinse off what was used for the burnt offering, and the sea was for the priests to wash in.

And he made ten golden lampstands as prescribed, and set them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north.  He also made ten tables and placed them in the temple, five on the south side and five on the north. And he made a hundred basins of gold.  He made the court of the priests and the great court and doors for the court and overlaid their doors with bronze.  And he set the sea at the southeast corner of the house.

 

Who did all of this, it was   Hiram the king of Tyre who sent a man who was very gifted in many skills, we find the account in 2 Chronicles 2:13-14.  “Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi, the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre. He is trained to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and in purple, blue, and crimson fabrics, and fine linen, and to do all sorts of engraving and execute any design that may be assigned him, with your craftsmen, the craftsmen of my lord, David your father.

 

God used 3 kings to accomplish the task of building his Temple, first God put the desire in King David’s heart, but not to build but to prepare, next He allowed David to share this with his son Solomon, and tell Solomon what God had said about him building the temple.  But it all comes back to a relationship that David had with King Hiram of Tyre who provided the Huram-abi and the materials to build God’s Temple.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice