The Molten Sea or Brazen Sea (ים מוצקyām mūṣāq "cast metal sea") was a large basin in the Temple in Jerusalem made by Solomon for ablution of the priests. It is described in 1 Kings 7:23–26 and 2 Chronicles 4:2–5. It stood in the south-eastern corner of the inner court. According to the Bible it was five cubits high, ten cubits in diameter from brim to brim, and thirty cubits in circumference. The brim was like the rim of a cup or like a lily blossom,[1] and its thickness was a hand breadth", three or four inches. It was placed on the backs of twelve oxen, standing with their faces outward. It was capable of containing two or three thousand baths of water (2 Chronicles 4:5). The fact that it was a wash basin which was too large to enter from above lends to the idea that water would likely have flowed from it down into a subcontainer beneath. The water was originally supplied by the Gibeonites, but was afterwards brought by a conduit from Solomon's Pools. The molten sea was made of brass or bronze, which Solomon had taken from the captured cities of Hadarezer, the king of Zobah (1 Chronicles 18:8). Ahaz later removed this laver from the oxen, and placed it on a stone pavement (2 Kings 16:17). It was destroyed by the Chaldeans (2 Kings 25:13).
The MoltenSea or Brazen Sea (ים מוצק yām mūṣāq "cast metal sea") was a large basin in the Temple in Jerusalem made by Solomon for ablution of the priests...
Kings 8:64; 2 Kings 16:14–15; 2 Chronicles 1:5; Ezekiel 43:13–17) and the moltensea (verses 2–5; cf. 1 Kings 7:23–26). The altar was a formidable object,...
the wise, a 1782 Rosicrucian book Asherah pole Bronze laver (Temple) MoltenSea Solomonic column Tree of life (Kabbalah) See (1 Kings 7:15, 1 Kings 7:21;...
called Sena, which might be Sena in Yemen. Later, it was taken across the sea to East Africa and may have been taken inland at the time of the Great Zimbabwe...
the entrance to the temple (verses 15–22), and the circular bronze sea ("moltensea"; verses 23–26), among those listed in verses 40–47. A note states...
Temple up to 70 CE. The discovery of the Temple Scroll as part of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 20th century provided another possible source. Lawrence Schiffman...
as a baptismal font is mounted on the backs of twelve oxen, as was the MoltenSea of the Temple. Masonic Temples in Freemasonry bear a similar symbolism...
the Ark of the Covenant and of the Solomonic Holy of Holies, and the MoltenSea which sat on the backs of twelve bronze oxen. Considering their ritual...
was apparently superseded by the molten or brazen sea described in 1 Kings 7:23–26 and 2 Chronicles 4:2–5. MoltenSea § The Laver of the Tabernacle Bronze...
as a baptismal font is mounted on the backs of twelve oxen, as was the MoltenSea in Solomon's Temple (see 2 Chronicles 4:2–4). (However, the literal interpretation...
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