~ Human Crafts the Bronze for the Temple ~

King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,
whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali
and whose father was a man of Tyre
and a craftsman in bronze.
Huram was highly skilled and experienced
in all kinds of bronze work.
He came to King Solomon
and did all the work assigned to him.

. . . So Huram finished all the work
he had undertaken for King Solomon
in the temple of the Lord:

the two pillars;
the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
the two sets of network decorating
the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of pillars;
the four hundred pomegranates
for the two sets of network
(two rows of pomegranates for each network,
decorating the bowl-shaped capitals
on top of the pillars);
the ten stands with their ten basins;
the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls.

All these objects that Huram made
for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord
were of burnished bronze.
The king had them cast in clay molds
in the plain of the Jordan
between Succoth and Zarethan.
Solomon left all these things unweighed,
because there were so many;
the weight of the bronze was not determined.

(I Kings 7:13-14, 40.5-48)