1 Kings 7:23-39

23He made the cast metal basin, 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference.

24Ornamental gourds encircled it below the brim, ten every half yard, completely encircling the basin. The gourds were cast in two rows when the basin was cast.

25It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The basin was on top of them and all their hindquarters were toward the center.

26The basin was three inches thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom. It held eleven thousand gallons.

27Then he made ten bronze water carts. Each water cart was 6 feet long, 6 feet wide, and 4½ feet high.

28This was the design of the carts: They had frames; the frames were between the cross-pieces,

29and on the frames between the cross-pieces were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the cross-pieces there was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

30Each cart had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Underneath the four corners of the basin were cast supports, each next to a wreath.

31And the water cart’s opening inside the crown on top was eighteen inches wide. The opening was round, made as a pedestal twenty-seven inches wide. On it were carvings, but their frames were square, not round.

32There were four wheels under the frames, and the wheel axles were part of the water cart; each wheel was twenty-seven inches tall.

33The wheels’ design was similar to that of chariot wheels: their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.

34Four supports were at the four corners of each water cart; each support was one piece with the water cart.

35At the top of the cart was a band nine inches high encircling it; also, at the top of the cart, its braces and its frames were one piece with it.

36He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its braces and on its frames, wherever each had space, with encircling wreaths.

37In this way he made the ten water carts using the same casting, dimensions, and shape for all of them.

38Then he made ten bronze basins  — each basin held 220 gallons and each was six feet wide — one basin for each of the ten water carts.

39He set five water carts on the right side of the temple and five on the left side. He put the basin near the right side of the temple toward the southeast.