³ Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.

⁴⁷ Solomon left all the utensils unweighed because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.^(A)

Completion of the Gold Furnishings

⁴⁸ Solomon also made all the equipment in the Lord’s temple: the gold altar; the gold table that the Bread of the Presence was placed on;^{(B) 49} the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left;^(C) the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs; ⁵⁰ the pure gold ceremonial bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles,^[a] and firepans;^(D) and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the most holy place) and for the doors of the temple sanctuary.

¹⁶ the pots, the shovels, the forks, and all their utensils—Huram-abi^[a](A) made them for King Solomon for the Lord’s temple. All these were made of polished bronze.