WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.617 Day 200 and 15 00:00:05.107 --> 00:00:08.917 King Solomon then asked for a man named Hurum to come from tire. 00:00:09.607 --> 00:00:13.597 He was half Israelite since his mother was a widow from the tribe of 00:00:13.597 --> 00:00:18.157 NAFTA lie, and his father had been a craftsman in bronze from tire. 00:00:19.297 --> 00:00:24.967 Hurum was extremely skillful and talented in any work in bronze, and he came to 00:00:24.967 --> 00:00:27.157 do all the metal work for King Solomon. 00:00:28.312 --> 00:00:35.962 Here I'm cast two bronze pillars each 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference For 00:00:35.962 --> 00:00:40.732 the tops of the pillars, he cast bronze capitals each seven and a half feet tall. 00:00:41.812 --> 00:00:46.612 Each capital was decorated with seven sets of lattice work and interwoven chains. 00:00:47.902 --> 00:00:51.412 He also encircled the lattice work with two rows of pomegranates to 00:00:51.412 --> 00:00:53.332 decorate the capitals over the pillars. 00:00:54.382 --> 00:00:58.432 The capitals on the columns inside the entry room were shaped like water 00:00:58.432 --> 00:01:00.832 lilies, and they were six feet tall. 00:01:01.912 --> 00:01:06.292 The capitals on the two pillars had 200 pomegranates in two rows around 00:01:06.297 --> 00:01:08.512 them beside the rounded surface. 00:01:08.512 --> 00:01:13.882 Next to the latticework, Hiam set the pillars at the entrance of the temple, one 00:01:13.882 --> 00:01:16.042 toward the south and one toward the north. 00:01:16.702 --> 00:01:21.202 He named the one on the south jenkin and the one on the north Boaz. 00:01:22.147 --> 00:01:26.197 The capitals on the pillars were shaped like water lilies, and so the 00:01:26.197 --> 00:01:27.877 work on the pillars was finished. 00:01:28.957 --> 00:01:33.697 Then Hirum cast a great round basin, 15 feet across from 00:01:33.697 --> 00:01:36.007 rim to rim called the sea. 00:01:36.637 --> 00:01:40.927 It was seven and a half feet deep and about 45 feet in circumference. 00:01:41.677 --> 00:01:45.817 It was encircled just below its rim by two rows of decorative gourds. 00:01:46.387 --> 00:01:49.267 There were about six gourds per foot all the way around. 00:01:49.702 --> 00:01:51.772 And they were cast as part of the basin. 00:01:53.062 --> 00:01:58.162 The sea was placed on a base of 12 bronze oxen all facing outward, 00:01:58.912 --> 00:02:04.522 three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced 00:02:04.522 --> 00:02:07.312 east, and the sea rested on them. 00:02:08.302 --> 00:02:13.012 The walls of the sea were about three inches thick, and its rim flared out like 00:02:13.012 --> 00:02:15.112 a cup and resembled a water Lily blossom. 00:02:16.522 --> 00:02:19.462 It could hold about 11,000 gallons of water. 00:02:20.722 --> 00:02:26.032 Hirum also made 10 bronze water carts each six feet long, six feet 00:02:26.032 --> 00:02:28.132 wide, and four and a half feet tall. 00:02:29.152 --> 00:02:32.512 They were constructed with side panels braced with crossbars. 00:02:32.812 --> 00:02:36.562 Both the panels and the crossbars were decorated with carved 00:02:36.562 --> 00:02:39.022 lions, oxen, and cherubim. 00:02:40.042 --> 00:02:43.702 Above and below, the lions and oxen were wreath decorations. 00:02:44.452 --> 00:02:47.902 Each of these carts had four bronze wheels and bronze axles. 00:02:48.592 --> 00:02:52.432 There were supporting posts for the bronze basins at the corners of the carts. 00:02:53.242 --> 00:02:56.902 These supports were decorated on each side with carvings of wreaths. 00:02:57.892 --> 00:03:00.802 The top of each cart had a rounded frame for the basin. 00:03:01.642 --> 00:03:06.952 It projected one and a half feet above the carts top, like a round pedestal, and its 00:03:06.952 --> 00:03:09.382 opening was two and a quarter feet across. 00:03:09.982 --> 00:03:12.982 It was decorated on the outside with carvings of wreaths. 00:03:14.137 --> 00:03:16.957 The panels of the carts were square, not round. 00:03:17.677 --> 00:03:21.487 Under the panels were four wheels that were connected to axles that had 00:03:21.487 --> 00:03:23.617 been cast as one unit with the cart. 00:03:24.457 --> 00:03:27.637 The wheels were two and a quarter feet in diameter, and 00:03:27.637 --> 00:03:29.317 were similar to chariot wheels. 00:03:29.977 --> 00:03:34.837 The axles, spokes, rims, and hubs were all cast from molten bronze. 00:03:36.127 --> 00:03:40.477 There were handles at each of the four corners of the carts, and these two 00:03:40.717 --> 00:03:42.757 were cast as one unit with the card. 00:03:43.657 --> 00:03:46.837 Around the top of each cart was a rim nine inches wide. 00:03:47.737 --> 00:03:52.057 The corner supports and side panels were cast as one unit with the cart 00:03:53.107 --> 00:03:58.147 carvings of cherubim, lions and palm trees decorated the panels and corner 00:03:58.147 --> 00:04:02.287 supports wherever there was room and there were wreaths all around. 00:04:03.307 --> 00:04:07.807 All 10 water carts were the same size and were made alike for 00:04:07.807 --> 00:04:09.937 each was cast from the same mold. 00:04:11.047 --> 00:04:15.487 Hirum also made 10 smaller bronze basins, one for each cart. 00:04:16.207 --> 00:04:21.067 Each basin was six feet across and could hold 220 gallons of water. 00:04:22.087 --> 00:04:26.917 He set five water carts on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. 00:04:27.907 --> 00:04:31.087 The great bronze basin called the sea was placed near the 00:04:31.087 --> 00:04:32.647 southeast corner of the temple. 00:04:34.027 --> 00:04:38.017 He also made the necessary wash basins, shovels, and bowls. 00:04:38.857 --> 00:04:43.207 So at last, Hiam completed everything King Solomon had assigned him to 00:04:43.207 --> 00:04:44.917 make for the temple of the Lord. 00:04:45.937 --> 00:04:51.607 The two pillars, the two bull shaped capitals on top of the pillars, the 00:04:51.607 --> 00:04:56.707 two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals, the 400 00:04:56.707 --> 00:05:02.017 pomegranates that hung from the chains on the capitals, two rows of pomegranates for 00:05:02.017 --> 00:05:06.097 each of the chain networks that decorated the capitals on top of the pillars. 00:05:06.712 --> 00:05:12.382 The 10 water carts holding the 10 basins, the sea, and the 12 oxen under it. 00:05:13.042 --> 00:05:16.102 The ash buckets, the shovels and the bowls. 00:05:17.332 --> 00:05:21.202 Hiam made all these things of burnished bronze for the temple of the Lord. 00:05:21.712 --> 00:05:26.902 Just as King Solomon had directed, the king had them cast in clay molds in the 00:05:26.902 --> 00:05:29.452 Jordan Valley between Zeth and Zhan. 00:05:30.862 --> 00:05:34.252 Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so many. 00:05:34.777 --> 00:05:36.907 The weight of the bronze could not be measured. 00:05:37.927 --> 00:05:40.837 Solomon also made all the furnishings of the temple of the 00:05:40.837 --> 00:05:46.237 Lord, the gold altar, the gold table for the bread of the presents. 00:05:46.777 --> 00:05:51.277 The lamp stands of solid gold, five on the south and five on the north 00:05:51.577 --> 00:05:53.437 in front of the most holy place. 00:05:54.137 --> 00:05:58.357 The flower, decorations, lamps, and tongs, all of gold. 00:05:59.227 --> 00:06:04.507 The small bowls lamp, snuffers bowls, lads, and incense burners, 00:06:04.897 --> 00:06:10.237 all of solid gold, the doors for the entrances to the most holy place 00:06:10.477 --> 00:06:14.647 and the main room of the temple with their fronts overlaid with gold. 00:06:15.847 --> 00:06:19.447 So King Solomon finished all his work on the temple of the Lord. 00:06:20.167 --> 00:06:21.457 Then he brought all the gifts. 00:06:21.457 --> 00:06:26.827 His father David had dedicated the silver, the gold, and the various articles. 00:06:27.412 --> 00:06:30.142 And he stored them in the treasuries of the Lord's temple. 00:06:32.332 --> 00:06:36.712 Solomon then summoned to Jerusalem, the elders of Israel and all the heads 00:06:36.717 --> 00:06:41.032 of the tribes, the leaders of the ancestral families of the Israelites. 00:06:41.962 --> 00:06:45.922 They were to bring the Ark of the Lord's covenant to the temple from its location 00:06:45.922 --> 00:06:48.922 in the city of David, also known as Zion. 00:06:50.272 --> 00:06:54.262 So all the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon at the 00:06:54.262 --> 00:06:56.092 Annual Festival of Shelters. 00:06:56.587 --> 00:07:02.257 Which is held in early autumn in the month of Es Andm, when all the elders 00:07:02.257 --> 00:07:07.357 of Israel arrived, the priests picked up the ark, the priests and levies brought 00:07:07.357 --> 00:07:11.617 up the Ark of the Lord, along with the special tent and all the sacred items 00:07:11.622 --> 00:07:15.127 that had been in it there before the Ark. 00:07:15.517 --> 00:07:21.037 King Solomon and the entire community of Israel sacrificed so many sheep, goats, 00:07:21.037 --> 00:07:23.767 and cattle that no one could keep count. 00:07:24.802 --> 00:07:28.132 Then the priests carried the Ark of the Lord's covenant into the 00:07:28.132 --> 00:07:32.662 inner sanctuary of the temple, the most holy place, and placed it 00:07:32.662 --> 00:07:34.462 beneath the wings of the cherubim. 00:07:35.422 --> 00:07:39.202 The cherubim spread their wings over the ark, forming a canopy over 00:07:39.202 --> 00:07:41.062 the ark and its carrying poles. 00:07:42.022 --> 00:07:45.652 These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the holy 00:07:45.652 --> 00:07:50.242 place, which is in front of the most holy place, but not from the outside. 00:07:50.782 --> 00:07:52.852 They are still there to this day. 00:07:53.842 --> 00:07:58.252 Nothing was in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in 00:07:58.252 --> 00:08:02.632 it at Mount Sinai where the Lord made a covenant with the people of Israel. 00:08:02.637 --> 00:08:08.032 When they left the land of Egypt, when the priests came out of the holy place, a 00:08:08.032 --> 00:08:10.162 thick cloud filled the temple of the Lord. 00:08:10.852 --> 00:08:14.182 The priests could not continue their service because of the cloud. 00:08:14.542 --> 00:08:18.022 For the glorious presence of the Lord, filled the temple of the Lord. 00:08:19.552 --> 00:08:20.992 Then Solomon prayed. 00:08:21.592 --> 00:08:22.342 Oh Lord. 00:08:22.957 --> 00:08:26.407 You have said that you would live in a thick cloud of darkness. 00:08:27.097 --> 00:08:31.897 Now I have built a glorious temple for you, a place where you can live forever. 00:08:32.947 --> 00:08:37.177 Then the king turned around to the entire community of Israel standing 00:08:37.177 --> 00:08:39.577 before him and gave this blessing. 00:08:40.717 --> 00:08:45.427 Praise the Lord, the God of Israel, who has kept the promise 00:08:45.427 --> 00:08:47.347 he made to my father, David. 00:08:48.247 --> 00:08:53.497 For, he told my father from the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt. 00:08:53.767 --> 00:08:58.747 I have never chosen a city among any of the tribes of Israel as the place where a 00:08:58.747 --> 00:09:01.027 temple should be built to honor my name. 00:09:01.987 --> 00:09:05.497 But I have chosen David to be king over my people Israel. 00:09:07.117 --> 00:09:13.147 Then Solomon said, my father, David wanted to build this temple to honor 00:09:13.147 --> 00:09:15.397 the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. 00:09:16.342 --> 00:09:20.692 But the Lord told him you wanted to build the temple to honor my name. 00:09:21.142 --> 00:09:24.832 Your intention is good, but you are not the one to do it. 00:09:25.552 --> 00:09:28.882 One of your own sons will build the temple to honor me. 00:09:30.022 --> 00:09:34.252 And now the Lord has fulfilled the promise he made for I have 00:09:34.252 --> 00:09:36.322 become king in my father's place. 00:09:36.592 --> 00:09:40.672 And now I sit on the throne of Israel just as the Lord promised. 00:09:41.467 --> 00:09:45.817 I have built this temple to honor the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, 00:09:46.357 --> 00:09:50.737 and I have prepared a place there for the ark, which contains the covenant 00:09:50.737 --> 00:09:54.397 that the Lord made with our ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt. 00:09:56.347 --> 00:09:59.197 This concludes today's Immer reading experience. 00:09:59.347 --> 00:10:00.577 Thank you for joining us.