2 Chronicles 4:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ It stood on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set on them. The hindquarters of each were toward the inside.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking north, three west, three south, three east; and the Sea rested upon them, and all their hind parts were inward.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.

Common English Bible

⁴ The Sea rested on twelve oxen with their backs toward the center, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And the sea itself was placed upon the twelve oxen, three of which were looking toward the north, and another three toward the west, then another three toward the south, and the three that remained toward the east, having the sea imposed upon them. But the posteriors of the oxen were toward the interior, under the sea.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And the oxen were cast. And the sea itself was set upon the twelve oxen: three of which looked toward the north: and other three toward the west: and other three toward the south: and the other three that remained toward the east. And the sea stood upon them; and the hinder parts of the oxen were inward under the sea.

2 Chronicles 4:4 Cross References

1 Kings 7:25

It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the sea was set on them. The hindquarters of each were toward the inside.

2 Chronicles 4:3

Under it were figures of bulls all around, each of ten cubits, surrounding the sea; there were two rows of bulls, cast when it was cast.

2 Chronicles 4:5

Its thickness was a handbreadth; its rim was made like the rim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held three thousand baths.

Matthew 16:18

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

Mark 16:15

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation.

Acts 9:15

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is an instrument whom I have chosen to bring my name before gentiles and kings and before the people of Israel;

Ephesians 2:20

built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone;

Revelation 21:14

And the wall of the city has twelve foundations, and on them are the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.