¹⁵ He also made two pillars 35 cubits^[a] high for the front of the Temple, topped by a capital that was five cubits^[b] high. ¹⁶ He crafted chains for the inner sanctuary and placed them on top of the pillars, attaching 100 pomegranates to each of the chains. ¹⁷ He set up the pillars at the front of the Temple, one on the south side of the entrance^[c] and the other on the north side of the entrance.^[d] He named the south pillar Jachin^[e] and the north pillar Boaz.^[f]

¹¹ Hiram-abi^[a] crafted the pots, shovels, and basins, thus completing the work that he did for King Solomon on the Temple of God; ¹² that is, the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals on top of the pillars, the two lattice works that covered the two bowls for the capitals that were on top of the pillars; ¹³ the 400 pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework having two rows of ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of each pillar); ¹⁴ the ten^[b] stands with their ten basins; ¹⁵ the large bronze basin called the Sea with the twelve oxen underneath, ¹⁶ along with its pots, shovels, forks, and all of its other implements that Hiram-abi made from polished bronze for King Solomon and the Lord’s Temple. ¹⁷ The king had them forged in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah in the Jordan plain. ¹⁸ Solomon made so many utensils in such great quantities that the weight of the bronze was never fully recorded.