14. He also made bases; and basins that he placed upon the bases;
15. one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
16. and cooking pots and hooks and bowls. Hiram, his father, made all the vessels for Solomon, in the house of the Lord, from the purest brass.
17. The king cast these in the region near the Jordan, in the clay soil between Succoth and Zeredah.
18. Now the multitude of the vessels was innumerable, so much so that the weight of the brass was unknown.