2 Chronicles 4:4
King James Version
“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 above upon them, and all their hinder parts inward.”
Context
1Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
2Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
3And under it the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen cast, when it was cast.
4It 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 above upon them, and all their hinder parts inward.
5And the thickness of it an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; it received and held three thousand baths.
6He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea for the priests to wash in.
7And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.