1 King Solomon had a bronze altar made, which was nine metres square and 4.5 metres high.
2 He also made a round tank of bronze, 2.2 metres deep, 4.4 metres in diameter, and 13.2 metres in circumference.
3 All round the outer edge of the rim of the tank were two rows of decorations, one above the other. The decorations were in the shape of bulls, which had been cast all in one piece with the rest of the tank.
4 The tank rested on the backs of twelve bronze bulls that faced outwards, three facing in each direction.
5 The sides of the tank were 75 millimetres thick. Its rim was like the rim of a cup, curving outwards like the petals of a flower. The tank held about 60,000 litres.