1 Kings 7

1 Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.

2 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.

3 The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

4 There were three rows of high windows facing one another in three tiers.

5 All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.

6 Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.

7 In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.

8 And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

9 All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.

10 The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.

11 Above these were costly stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.

12 The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

13 Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.

14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.

15 He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

16 He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.

17 For the capitals on top of the pillars he made a network of lattice, with wreaths of chainwork, seven for each capital.

18 Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.

19 And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.

20 On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.

21 Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.

22 And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.

23 He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

24 Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

25 The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

26 It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.

27 In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

28 This was the design of the stands: They had side panels attached to uprights,

29 and on the panels between the uprights were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the uprights was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work.

30 Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and a basin resting on four supports, with wreaths at each side.

31 The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.

32 There were four wheels under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand; each wheel was a cubit and a half in diameter.

33 The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.

34 Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.

35 At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.

36 He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and panels, wherever each had space, with wreaths all around.

37 In this way he made the ten stands, each with the same casting, dimensions, and shape.

38 He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

39 He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.

40 Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:

41 the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars; the two sets of network covering both bowls of the capitals atop the pillars;

42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars);

43 the ten stands; the ten basins on the stands;

44 the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

45 and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.

46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

47 Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

48 Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;

49 the lampstands of pure gold in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right side and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;

50 the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place) as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

51 So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

1 ¶ But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof [was] an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.

4 And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.

5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.

6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch [was] before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.

7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

8 And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the porch, [which] was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken [to wife], like unto this porch.

9 All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and [so] on the outside toward the great court.

10 And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

12 And the great court round about [was] with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

13 ¶ And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

14 He [was] a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.

15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

16 And he made two chapiters [of] molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter [was] five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter [was] five cubits:

17 [And] nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which [were] upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.

18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that [were] upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

19 And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars [had pomegranates] also above, over against the belly which [was] by the network: and the pomegranates [were] two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

22 And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

24 And under the brim of it round about [there were] knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops [were] cast in two rows, when it was cast.

25 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.

26 And it [was] an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.

27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

28 And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:

29 And on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were] lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges [there was] a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain additions made of thin work.

30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver [were] undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.

31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above [was] a cubit: but the mouth thereof [was] round [after] the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it [were] gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

32 And under the borders [were] four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels [were joined] to the base: and the height of a wheel [was] a cubit and half a cubit.

33 And the work of the wheels [was] like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, [were] all molten.

34 And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners of one base: [and] the undersetters [were] of the very base itself.

35 And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof [were] of the same.

36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.

37 After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, [and] one size.

38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: [and] every laver was four cubits: [and] upon every one of the ten bases one laver.

39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.

40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:

41 The two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the chapiters that [were] on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which [were] upon the top of the pillars;

42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, [even] two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that [were] upon the pillars;

43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;

44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, [were of] bright brass.

46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.

47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

48 ¶ And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread [was],

49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right [side], and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs [of] gold,

50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers [of] pure gold; and the hinges [of] gold, [both] for the doors of the inner house, the most holy [place, and] for the doors of the house, [to wit], of the temple.

51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.

1 But Solomon built his house thirteen years, and made it complete.

2 Namely, he built an house of the forest of Lebanon, an hundred cubits long, fifty cubits broad, and thirty cubits high. And upon the same four quarters he laid the floor of cedar boards, upon cedar pillars, according to the staves,

3 And upon the top thereof a room of cedars upon the same pillars, which were forty and five, fifteen in a row.

4 And were windows against the three squares over against each other, three against three.

5 And were foursquare in their posts.

6 And he built a hall of pillars fifty cubits long, and thirty cubits broad; and another hall before it, with pillars and thick beams.

7 And he built also a hall for the judgment seat, where they judged: and he wainscoted both the floors with cedar.

8 And his house, where he dwelt, was in the court of the back of the hall, made like unto the other houses: and he made a house like unto the hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken to wife.

9 All these were precious stones, hewn with angle iron, cut with saws on every side, from the foundation even to the roof, and the great court without.

10 And the foundations also were precious and great stones, ten cubits and eight cubits,

11 and thereon precious hewn stones after the angle iron and cedars.

12 And the great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and one course of cedar boards; so also the court of the house of the LORD within, and the hall of the house.

13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram of Tyre,

14 The son of a widow, of the tribe of Naphtali; and his father was a man of Tyre: he was a master of brass, full of wisdom, and understanding, and skill in working all manner of brass. And when he came to king Solomon, he made all his works.

15 And he made two pillars of brass, every one eighteen cubits high; and a cord of twelve cubits was the measure of every pillar.

16 And he made two knobs of brass to be set upon the top of the pillars, and every knob was five cubits high.

17 And on every knob of the top of the pillar were seven plaited hoops, like chains.

18 And he made on every pommel two rows of pomegranates round about in one hoop, to cover the pommel.

19 And the knobs were as the roses before the hall, four cubits high.

20 And the pomegranates that were in the staves round about were two hundred, above and below the hoop that went round about the belly of the pommel, on every pommel on both pillars.

21 And he set up the pillars before the hall of the temple. And which he set on the right hand he called Jachin; and which he set on the left hand he called Boaz.

22 And it stood upon the pillars like roses. So the work of the pillars was finished.

23 And he made a sea of water ten cubits broad, from brim to brim, round about, and five cubits high; and a cord thirty cubits long was the measure round about.

24 And about the same sea, which was ten cubits broad, there were knots in the border thereof round about the sea: and the knots were two tiers cast.

25 And there stood upon twelve oxen, of which three were toward the north, and three toward the west, and three toward the south, and three toward the east: and the sea was upon them, and all their hind parts were inward.

26 And the thickness thereof was an handbreadth, and the brim thereof was as the brim of a cup, as a rose sprung up: and it went in for two thousand baths.

27 And he made ten stands of brass, each four cubits long and broad, and three cubits high.

28 And the stalls were so made, that they had sides between the fillets.

29 And on the sides between the borders were lions, and oxen, and cherubims. And the sides where the lions and the oxen were had ledges above and below, and little feet thereon.

30 And every chair had four brass wheels with a brass frame. And on the four corners were cast armpits, every one over against the other, leaning down against the caldron.

31 But the neck in the midst of the stalls was a cubit high, and about a cubit and a half wide; and there were humps in the neck in squares, and not round.

32 And the four wheels were at the bottom of the sides, and the axles of the wheels were upon the stalls. Each wheel was a cubit and a half high.

33 And the wheels were like chariot wheels, and their axles, and hubs, and spokes, and rims, were all cast.

34 And the four armpits of the four corners of every stall were also in the stalls.

35 And at the neck, on the top of the chair, half a cubit high, round about, were ledges and sides on the chair.

36 And he digged on the surface of the same sides and borders cherubims, and lions, and palm trees; every one by the other round about.

37 And in this manner he made ten chairs, cast, of the same measure, and of the same space, in all of them.

38 And he made ten brasen caldrons, that forty baths might go into one caldron: and the caldron was four cubits high, and upon every throne was a caldron.

39 And he set five chairs at the right hand corner of the house, and the other five at the left hand corner: and he set the sea on the right hand before the south.

40 And Hiram also made pots, and shovels, and basons; and finished all the works which king Solomon made in the house of the LORD,

41 Namely, the two pillars, and the two censers on the top of the two pillars, and the two plaited bands to cover the two censers on the pillars;

42 and the four hundred pomegranates on the two wreathed hoops, two rows of pomegranates on each hoop, to cover the two pommels on the pillars;

43 Plus the ten pews and ten kettles on top;

44 And the sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the beckons. And all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon in the house of the LORD, were of pure brass.

46 In the region of Jordan the king cast them, in thick earth, between Shukoth and Zarthan.

47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed before the very great multitude of the brass.

48 Solomon also made all the vessels of the house of the LORD, a golden altar, and a golden table, whereon the shewbread was laid;

49 Five candlesticks on the right hand, and five candlesticks on the left hand, before the choir, of pure gold, with flowers of gold, and lamps, and snows;

50 And bowls, and dishes, and basons, and spoons, and pans, of pure gold. And the hinges of the door of the inner house of the holy of holies, and of the door of the house of the temple, were of gold.

51 So all the work that king Solomon did in the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, which David his father had hallowed, and put them in the treasury of the house of the LORD.