Good morning. I’d like to offer a response to Eric Reynolds’ recent video on the doctrine of eternal generation. Eric raised this topic because our denomination will soon vote on whether to adopt a new Declaration of Principles. In the proposed declaration, article 3 states that Jesus the Son is “eternally begotten of the Father.” This wording comes from the church’s debate with Arianism and was formally expressed in the Nicene Creed of AD 325: “God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, of the same essence as the Father.”
Eric urges Advent Christians to adopt this new Declaration of Principles because it makes clear where we stand in reference to the nature of Christ. It certainly does that. But I suggest that Eric went too far when he said, “You cannot be a Christian and reject the eternal begottenness of Jesus.”
First, many sincere Christians throughout the early centuries wrestled with how Scripture describes Jesus as the monogenēs of the Father (John 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18; 1 John 4:9). The Nicene theologians did not settle on their formulation immediately; their conclusions emerged only after generations of debate and reflection, eventually taking shape centuries later.
Secondly, the New Testament never uses the adjective “eternal” (αἰώνιος) to describe:
Christ as monogenēs, or
Christ’s generation/procession from the Father.
The NT simply does not pair aiōnios with monogenēs, nor with any verb of begetting, sending, or proceeding.
In other words, the Bible does not specifically teach eternal generation. It may be true, but Advent Christians have historically been wary of accepting theological constructions just because other Christians believe them to be true.
Thirdly, it was no surprise to me that, almost immediately after the proposed 2026 Declaration of Principles was published, people from many different perspectives began questioning its language. In several areas, the new proposal uses theological terms with a precision unfamiliar to many Advent Christians, while in other areas it introduces ambiguity where our current Declaration has traditionally been quite clear.
Over the past several weeks, I’ve received many emails and phone calls, and I’ve sat down with people from various backgrounds—all of whom share serious concerns about the proposed changes. Because of these conversations, I am persuaded that 2026 is not the year for our denomination to alter its guiding principles. If you are a delegate at the August triennial convention, please vote NO on the proposed revision to the Declaration of Principles. And if your church is sending delegates, please ask them to vote NO as well.
1 Kings 10:1 The queen of Sheba heard about Solomon’s fame connected with the name of Yahveh and came to test him with riddles.
1 Kings 10:2 She came to Jerusalem with a very large show of wealth, with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. She came to Solomon and spoke to him about everything that was on her mind.
1 Kings 10:3 So Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain to her.
1 Kings 10:4 When the queen of Sheba observed all of Solomon’s wisdom, the palace he had built,
1 Kings 10:5 the food at his table, his servants’ residence, his attendants’ service and their attire, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he offered at Yahveh ‘s temple, there was no more breath[1] in her.
1 Kings 10:6 She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own land about your words and about your wisdom is true.
1 Kings 10:7 But I didn’t believe the reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, I was not even told half. Your wisdom and prosperity far exceed the report I heard.
1 Kings 10:8 How happy are your men. How happy are these servants of yours, who always stand in your presence hearing your wisdom.
1 Kings 10:9 Blessed be Yahveh your God! He delighted in you and put you on the throne of Israel, because of Yahveh ‘s eternal love for Israel. He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”
1 Kings 10:10 Then she gave the king four and a half tons of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again did such a quantity of spices arrive as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
1 Kings 10:11 In addition, Hiram’s fleet that carried gold from Ophir brought from Ophir a large quantity of almug wood and precious stones.
1 Kings 10:12 The king made the almug wood into steps for Yahveh ‘s temple and the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before did such almug wood arrive, and the like has not been seen again.
1 Kings 10:13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba her every desire– whatever she asked — besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she, along with her servants, returned to her own land.
1 Kings 10:14 The weight of gold that came to Solomon annually was twenty-five tons,
1 Kings 10:15 besides what came from merchants, traders’ merchandise, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
1 Kings 10:16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; fifteen pounds of gold went into each shield.
1 Kings 10:17 He made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; nearly four pounds of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings 10:18 The king also made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with fine gold.
1 Kings 10:19 The throne had six steps; there was a rounded top at the back of the throne, armrests on either side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.
1 Kings 10:20 Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps, one at each end. Nothing like it had ever been made in any other kingdom.
1 Kings 10:21 All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,
1 Kings 10:22 for the king had ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
1 Kings 10:23 King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the land in riches and in wisdom.
1 Kings 10:24 The whole land wanted an audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom that God had put in his heart.
1 Kings 10:25 Every man would bring his annual tribute: items of silver and gold, clothing, weapons, spices, and horses and mules.
1 Kings 10:26 Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen and stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.
1 Kings 10:27 The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.
1 Kings 10:28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue. The king’s traders bought them from Kue at the going price.
1 Kings 10:29 A chariot was imported from Egypt for fifteen pounds of silver, and a horse for nearly four pounds. In the same way, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram through their agents.
1 Kings 9:1 When Solomon finished building the temple of Yahveh, the royal palace, and all that Solomon desired to do,
1 Kings 9:2 Yahveh appeared to Solomon a second time just as he had appeared to him at Gibeon.
1 Kings 9:3 Yahveh said to him: I have heard your prayer and petition you have made before me. I have consecrated this temple you have built, to put my name there forever; my eyes and my heart will be always there.
1 Kings 9:4 As for you, if you walk before me as your father David walked, with a heart of integrity and in what is right, doing everything I have commanded you, and if you keep my statutes and ordinances,
1 Kings 9:5 I will establish your royal throne over Israel forever, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.
1 Kings 9:6 If you or your sons turn away from following me and do not keep my commands — my statutes that I have set before you — and if you go and serve other gods and bow in worship to them,
1 Kings 9:7 I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for my name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.
1 Kings 9:8 Though this temple is now exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff. They will say: Why did Yahveh do this to this land and this temple?
1 Kings 9:9 Then they will say: Because they abandoned Yahveh their God who brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt. They held strongly to other gods and bowed in worship to them and served them. Because of this, Yahveh brought all this ruin on them.
1 Kings 9:10 At the end of twenty years during which Solomon had built the two houses, Yahveh ‘s temple and the royal palace —
1 Kings 9:11 King Hiram of Tyre having supplied him with cedar and cypress logs and gold for his every wish — King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.
1 Kings 9:12 So Hiram went out from Tyre to look over the towns that Solomon had given him, but he was not pleased with them.
1 Kings 9:13 So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother?” So, he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are still called today.
1 Kings 9:14 Now Hiram had sent the king nine thousand pounds of gold.
1 Kings 9:15 This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon had imposed to build Yahveh ‘s temple, his own palace, the supporting terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
1 Kings 9:16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
1 Kings 9:17 Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
1 Kings 9:18 Baalath, Tamar in the Wilderness of the land,
1 Kings 9:19 all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.
1 Kings 9:20 As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hethites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites —
1 Kings 9:21 their descendants who remained in the land after them, those whom the Israelites were unable to set apart for destruction[1] — Solomon imposed forced labor on them; it is still this way today.
1 Kings 9:22 But Solomon did not consign the Israelites to slavery; they were soldiers, his servants, his commanders, his captains, and commanders of his chariots and his cavalry.
1 Kings 9:23 These were the deputies who were over Solomon’s work: 550 who supervised the people doing the work.
1 Kings 9:24 Pharaoh’s daughter moved from the city of David to the house that Solomon had built for her; he then built the terraces.
1 Kings 9:25 Three times a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings on the altar he had built for Yahveh, and he burned incense with them in Yahveh ‘s presence. So, he completed the temple.
1 Kings 9:26 King Solomon put together a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea in the land of Edom.
1 Kings 9:27 With the fleet, Hiram sent his servants, experienced seamen, along with Solomon’s servants.
1 Kings 9:28 They went to Ophir and acquired gold there — sixteen tons — and delivered it to Solomon.
[1] חָרָם = set apart for destruction. 1 Kings 9:21.
1 Kings 8:1 At that time Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, all the tribal heads and the ancestral leaders of the Israelites before him at Jerusalem to bring the ark of Yahveh ‘s covenant from the city of David, that is Zion.
1 Kings 8:2 So all the men of Israel were assembled in the presence of King Solomon in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh month, at the festival.
1 Kings 8:3 All the elders of Israel came, and the priests lifted up the ark.
1 Kings 8:4 The priests and the Levites brought the ark of Yahveh, the tent of meeting, and the holy utensils that were in the tent.
1 Kings 8:5 King Solomon and the entire congregation of Israel, who had gathered around him and were with him in front of the ark, were sacrificing sheep, goats, and cattle that could not be counted or numbered, because there were so many.
1 Kings 8:6 The priests brought the ark of Yahveh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place beneath the wings of the cherubim.
1 Kings 8:7 Because the cherubs were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubs covered the ark and its poles from above.
1 Kings 8:8 The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside the sanctuary; they are still there today.
1 Kings 8:9 Nothing was in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had put there at Horeb, where Yahveh made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:10 When the priests came out of the holy place, the cloud filled Yahveh’s temple,
1 Kings 8:11 and because of the cloud, the priests were not able to stay ministering, for the glory of Yahveh filled the temple.
1 Kings 8:12 Then Solomon said: Yahveh said that he would dwell in total darkness.
1 Kings 8:13 I have indeed built an exalted temple for you, a place for your dwelling forever.
1 Kings 8:14 The king turned around and blessed the entire congregation of Israel while they were standing.
1 Kings 8:15 He said: Blessed be Yahveh God of Israel! He spoke directly to my father David, and he has fulfilled the promise by his power. He said,
1 Kings 8:16 “Since the day I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city to build a temple in among any of the tribes of Israel, so that my name would be there. But I have chosen David to rule my people, Israel.”
1 Kings 8:17 My father David had his heart set on building a temple for the name of Yahveh, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:18 But Yahveh said to my father David, “Since your heart was set on building a temple for my name, you have done well to have this desire.
1 Kings 8:19 Yet you are not the one to build it; instead, your son, your own offspring, will build it for my name.”
1 Kings 8:20 Yahveh has fulfilled what he promised. I have taken the place of my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahveh promised. I have built the temple for the name of Yahveh, the God of Israel.
1 Kings 8:21 I have provided a place there for the ark, where Yahveh’s covenant is that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:22 Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahveh in front of the entire congregation of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.[1]
1 Kings 8:23 He said: Lord God of Israel, there is no God like you in the sky above or on land below, who keeps the gracious covenant with your servants who walk before you with all their heart.
1 Kings 8:24 You have kept what you promised to your servant, my father David. You spoke directly to him and you fulfilled your promise by your power as it is today.
1 Kings 8:25 Therefore, Lord God of Israel, keep what you promised to your servant, my father David: You will never fail to have a man to sit before me on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take care to walk before me as you have walked before me.
1 Kings 8:26 Now God of Israel, please confirm what you promised to your servant, my father David.
1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed live in the land? Even the sky, the highest sky, cannot contain you, much less this temple I have built.
1 Kings 8:28 Listen to your servant’s prayer and his petition, Yahveh my God, so that you may hear the cry and the prayer that your servant prays before you today,
1 Kings 8:29 so that your eyes may watch over this temple night and day, toward the place where you said, “My name will be there,” and so that you may hear the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.
1 Kings 8:30 Hear the petition of your servant and your people Israel, which they pray toward this place. May you hear in your dwelling place in the sky. May you hear and forgive.
1 Kings 8:31 When a man sins against his neighbor and is forced to take an oath, and he comes to take an oath before your altar in this temple,
1 Kings 8:32 may you hear in the sky and act. May you judge your servants, condemning the wicked man by bringing what he has done on his own head and providing justice for the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
1 Kings 8:33 When your people Israel are defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against you, and they return to you and praise your name, and they pray and plead with you for mercy in this temple,
1 Kings 8:34 may you hear in the sky and forgive the sin of your people Israel. May you restore them to the land you gave their ancestors.
1 Kings 8:35 When the skies are shut and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you, and they pray toward this place and praise your name, and they turn from their sins because you are afflicting them,
1 Kings 8:36 may you hear in the sky and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, so that you may teach them the good way they should walk in. May you send rain on your land that you gave your people for an inheritance.
1 Kings 8:37 When there is famine in the land, when there is pestilence, when there is blight or mildew, locust or grasshopper, when their enemy besieges them in the land and its cities, when there is any plague or illness,
1 Kings 8:38 every prayer or petition that any person or that all your people Israel may have — they each know their own affliction — as they spread out their hands toward this temple,
1 Kings 8:39 may you hear in the sky, your dwelling place, and may you forgive, act, and give to everyone according to all their ways, since you know each heart, for you alone know every human heart,
1 Kings 8:40 so that they may fear you all the days they live on the land you gave our ancestors.
1 Kings 8:41 Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name —
1 Kings 8:42 for they will hear of your great name, strong hand, and outstretched arm, and will come and pray toward this temple —
1 Kings 8:43 may you hear in the sky, your dwelling place, and do according to all the foreigner asks. Then all peoples of the land will know your name, to fear you as your people Israel do and to know that this temple that I have built bears your name.
1 Kings 8:44 When your people go out to fight against their enemies, wherever you send them, and they pray to Yahveh in the direction of the city you have chosen and the temple I have built for your name,
1 Kings 8:45 may you hear their prayer and petition in the sky and uphold their cause.
1 Kings 8:46 When they sin against you — for there is no one who does not sin — and you are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, and their captors deport them to the enemy’s country — whether distant or nearby —
1 Kings 8:47 and when they come to their senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition you in their captors’ land: “We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,”
1 Kings 8:48 and when they return to you with all their heart and all their throat in the land of their enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to you in the direction of their land that you gave their ancestors, the city you have chosen, and the temple I have built for your name,
1 Kings 8:49 may you hear in the sky, your dwelling place, their prayer and petition and uphold their cause.
1 Kings 8:50 May you forgive your people who sinned against you and all their rebellions against you, and may you grant them compassion before their captors, so that they may treat them compassionately.
1 Kings 8:51 For they are your people and your inheritance; you brought them out of Egypt, out of the middle of an iron furnace.
1 Kings 8:52 May your eyes be open to your servant’s petition and to the petition of your people Israel, listening to them whenever they call to you.
1 Kings 8:53 For you, Yahveh God, have set them apart as your inheritance from all peoples of the land, as you spoke through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.
1 Kings 8:54 When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and petition to Yahveh, he got up from kneeling before the altar of Yahveh, with his hands spread out toward the sky,
1 Kings 8:55 and he stood and blessed the whole congregation of Israel with a loud voice:
1 Kings 8:56 “Blessed be Yahveh! He has given rest to his people Israel according to all he has said. Not one of all the good promises he made through his servant Moses has failed.
1 Kings 8:57 May Yahveh our God be with us as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us
1 Kings 8:58 so that he causes us to be devoted to him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commands, statutes, and ordinances, which he commanded our ancestors.
1 Kings 8:59 May my words with which I have made my petition before Yahveh be near Yahveh our God day and night. May he uphold his servant’s cause and the cause of his people Israel, as each day requires.
1 Kings 8:60 May all the peoples of the land know that Yahveh is God. There is no other!
1 Kings 8:61 Be wholeheartedly devoted to Yahveh our God to walk in his statutes and to keep his commands, as it is today.”
1 Kings 8:62 The king and all Israel with him were offering sacrifices in Yahveh’s presence.
1 Kings 8:63 Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to Yahveh: twenty-two thousand cattle and one hundred twenty thousand sheep and goats. In this manner the king and all the Israelites dedicated Yahveh’s temple.
1 Kings 8:64 On the same day, the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was in front of Yahveh’s temple because that was where he offered the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the fellowship offerings since the bronze altar before Yahveh was too small to accommodate the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the fellowship offerings.
1 Kings 8:65 Solomon and all Israel with him — a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of Egypt — observed the festival at that time in the presence of Yahveh our God, seven days, and seven more days– fourteen days.
1 Kings 8:66 On the fifteenth day he sent the people away. So, they blessed the king and went to their homes rejoicing and with happy hearts for all the goodness that Yahveh had done for his servant David and for his people Israel.
1 Kings 7:1 Solomon completed his entire palace complex after thirteen years of construction.
1 Kings 7:2 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars.
1 Kings 7:3 It was covered above with cedar at the top of the chambers that rested on forty-five pillars, fifteen per row.
1 Kings 7:4 There were three rows of window frames, facing each other in three tiers.
1 Kings 7:5 All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers.
1 Kings 7:6 He made the hall of pillars fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. A portico was in front of the pillars, and a canopy with pillars was in front of them.
1 Kings 7:7 He made the Hall of the Throne where he would judge– the Hall of Judgment. It was covered with cedar from the floor to the rafters.
1 Kings 7:8 Solomon’s own palace where he would live, in the other courtyard behind the hall, was of similar construction. And he made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, his wife.
1 Kings 7:9 All of these buildings were of costly stones, cut to size and sawed with saws on the inner and outer surfaces, from foundation to coping and from the outside to the great courtyard.
1 Kings 7:10 The foundation was made of large, costly stones twelve and fifteen feet long.
1 Kings 7:11 Above were also costly stones, cut to size, as well as cedar wood.
1 Kings 7:12 Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of Yahveh ‘s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.
1 Kings 7:13 King Solomon sent and took Hiram from Tyre.
1 Kings 7:14 He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze craftsman. Hiram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge to do every kind of bronze work. So, he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
1 Kings 7:15 He cast two bronze pillars, each 18 cubits high and 12 cubits in circumference.
1 Kings 7:16 He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was also the height of the second capital.
1 Kings 7:17 The capitals on top of the pillars had gratings of latticework, wreaths made of chainwork– seven for the first capital and seven for the second.
1 Kings 7:18 He made the pillars with two encircling rows of pomegranates on the one grating to cover the capital on top; he did the same for the second capital.
1 Kings 7:19 And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
1 Kings 7:20 The capitals on the two pillars were also immediately above the rounded surface next to the grating, and two hundred pomegranates were in rows encircling each capital.
1 Kings 7:21 He set up the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin; then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.
1 Kings 7:22 The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. Then the work of the pillars was completed.
1 Kings 7:23 He made the cast metal basin, ten cubits from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was five cubits high and 30 cubits in circumference.
1 Kings 7:24 Ornamental gourds encircled it below the brim, ten every cubit, completely encircling the basin. The gourds were cast in two rows when the basin was cast.
1 Kings 7:25 It 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.
1 Kings 7:26 The basin was three inches thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.
1 Kings 7:27 Then he made ten bronze water carts. Each water cart was 4 cubits long, 4 cubits wide, and 3 cubits high.
1 Kings 7:28 This was the design of the carts: They had frames; the frames were between the cross-pieces,
1 Kings 7:29 and 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.
1 Kings 7:30 Each cart had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Underneath the four corners of the basin were cast supports, each next to a wreath.
1 Kings 7:31 And the water cart’s opening inside the crown on top was a cubit wide. The opening was round, made as a pedestal twenty-seven inches wide. On it were carvings, but their frames were square, not round.
1 Kings 7:32 There were four wheels under the frames, and the wheel axles were part of the water cart; each wheel was 1 ½ cubits tall.
1 Kings 7:33 The wheels’ design was like that of chariot wheels: their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.
1 Kings 7:34 Four supports were at the four corners of each water cart; each support was one piece with the water cart.
1 Kings 7:35 At 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.
1 Kings 7:36 He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its braces and on its frames, wherever each had space, with encircling wreaths.
1 Kings 7:37 In this way he made the ten water carts using the same casting, dimensions, and shape for all of them.
1 Kings 7:38 Then he made ten bronze basins — each basin held 40 baths and each was six feet wide — one basin for each of the ten water carts.
1 Kings 7:39 He 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.
1 Kings 7:40 Then Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the sprinkling basins. So, Hiram finished all the work that he was doing for King Solomon on Yahveh ‘s temple:
1 Kings 7:41 two pillars; bowls for the capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two gratings for covering both bowls of the capitals that were on top of the pillars;
1 Kings 7:42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two gratings (two rows of pomegranates for each grating covering both capitals’ bowls on top of the pillars);
1 Kings 7:43 the ten water carts; the ten basins on the water carts;
1 Kings 7:44 the basin; the twelve oxen underneath the basin;
1 Kings 7:45 and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling basins. All the utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon at Yahveh ‘s temple were made of burnished bronze.
1 Kings 7:46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.
1 Kings 7:47 Solomon left all the utensils unweighed because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
1 Kings 7:48 Solomon also made all the equipment in Yahveh’s temple: the gold altar; the gold table that the Bread of the Presence was placed on;
1 Kings 7:49 the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
1 Kings 7:50 the pure gold ceremonial bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles, and firepans; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the most holy place) and for the doors of the temple sanctuary.
1 Kings 7:51 So all the work King Solomon did in Yahveh’s temple was completed. Then Solomon brought in the consecrated things of his father David — the silver, the gold, and the utensils — and put them in the treasuries of Yahveh ‘s temple.
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