1 Kings 7:45

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1 Kings 7:43–47 · Berean Standard Bible

43 the ten stands; the ten basins on the stands;

44 the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

45 and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.

46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

47 Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

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Exodus 27:3

Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

Exodus 38:3

He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.

Leviticus 8:31

And Moses said to Aaron and his sons, “Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there with the bread that is in the basket of ordination offerings, as I commanded, saying, ‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it.’

1 Samuel 2:13

or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

1 Samuel 2:14

and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.

2 Chronicles 4:16

and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.

Ezekiel 46:20

and said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them into the outer court and transmit holiness to the people.”

Ezekiel 46:21

Then he brought me into the outer court and led me around to its four corners, and I saw a separate court in each of its corners.

Ezekiel 46:22

In the four corners of the outer court there were enclosed courts, each forty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. Each of the four corner areas had the same dimensions.

Ezekiel 46:23

Around the inside of each of the four courts was a row of masonry with ovens built at the base of the walls on all sides.

Ezekiel 46:24

And he said to me, “These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple will cook the sacrifices offered by the people.”

Zechariah 14:21

Indeed, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the LORD of Hosts, and all who sacrifice will come and take some pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of Hosts.