From Tibhath ¹  and Kun, ²  Hadadezer’s cities, David took a great deal of bronze. (Solomon used it to make the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” ³  the pillars, and other bronze items.

The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the temple of the Lord, as well as the movable stands and the large bronze basin called the “The Sea.” ¹  They took all the bronze to Babylon.

You are to make its four horns ¹  on its four corners; its horns will be part of it, ²  and you are to overlay it with bronze.

You are to make its pots for the ashes, ¹  its shovels, its tossing bowls, ²  its meat hooks, and its fire pans – you are to make all ³  its utensils of bronze.

You are to make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and you are to overlay them with bronze.

with ¹  twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

All the posts around the courtyard are to have silver bands; ¹  their hooks are to be ²  silver, and their bases bronze.

All ¹  the utensils of the tabernacle used ²  in all its service, all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze. ³ 

He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be a unit. ¹ 

and its five posts and their hooks. He overlaid their tops ¹  and their bands with gold, but their five bases were bronze. ² 

He made its horns on its four corners; its horns were part of it, ¹  and he overlaid it with bronze.

He made a grating for the altar, a network of bronze under its ledge, halfway up from the bottom.

He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, to provide places for the poles.

with ¹  their twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

with four posts and their four bronze bases. Their hooks and their bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver.

The ¹  sky ²  above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

All the silver and gold, as well as bronze and iron items, belong to the Lord. ¹  They must go into the Lord’s treasury.”

From Tebah ¹  and Berothai, Hadadezer’s cities, King David took a great deal of bronze.

Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze. ¹ 

David supplied a large amount of iron for the nails of the doors of the gates and for braces, more bronze than could be weighed,