The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon: The Challoner Revision
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 14: 2 Paralipomenon: The Challoner Revision
Bible. Chronicles, 2nd
4:8. Moreover also ten tables: and he set them in the temple, five on
the right side, and five on the left. Also a hundred bowls of gold.
4:9. He made also the court of the priests, and a great hall, and doors
in the hall, which he covered with brass.
4:10. And he set the sea on the right side over against the east toward
the south.
4:11. And Hiram made caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls: and finished
all the king's work the house of God:
4:12. That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the
chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.
4:13. And four hundred pomegranates, and two wreaths of network, so that
two rows of pomegranates were joined to each wreath, to cover the
pommels, and the chapiters of the pillars.
4:14. He made also bases, and lavers, which he set upon the bases:
4:15. One sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
4:16. And the caldrons, and fleshhooks, and bowls. All the vessels did
Hiram his father make for Solomon in the house of the Lord of the finest
brass.
4:17. In the country near the Jordan did the king cast them, in a clay
ground between Sochot and Saredatha.
4:18. And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight
of the brass was not known.
4:19. And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of God, and the
golden altar, and the tables, upon which were the loaves of proposition,
4:20. The candlesticks also of most pure gold with their lamps to give
light before the oracle, according to the manner.
4:21. And certain flowers, and lamps, and golden tongs: all were made of
the finest gold.
4:22. The vessels also for the perfumes, and the censers, and the bowls,
and the mortars, of pure gold. And he graved the doors of the inner
temple, that is, for the holy of holies: and the doors of the temple
without were of gold. And thus all the work was finished which Solomon
made in the house of the Lord.
2 Paralipomenon Chapter 5
The ark is brought with great solemnity into the temple: the temple is
filled with the glory of God.
5:1. Then Solomon brought in all those things that David his father had
vowed, the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he put among the
treasures of the house of God.
5:2. And after this he gathered together the ancients of Israel and all
the princes of the tribes, and the heads of the families, of the
children of Israel to Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the covenant of the
Lord out of the city of David, which is Sion.
5:3. And all the men of Israel came to the king in the solemn day of the
seventh month.
5:4. And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites took up
the ark,
5:5. And brought it in, together with all the furniture of the
tabernacle. And the priests with the Levites carried the vessels of the
sanctuary, which were in the tabernacle.
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