1 Kings 7

¹And his house Solomon built in thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

²And he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon: one hundred cubits its length and fifty cubits its breadth and thirty cubits its height, upon four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams upon the pillars.

³And it was paneled with cedar above, over the side chambers that were upon the pillars — forty-five in number, fifteen per row.

⁴And there were window frames in three rows, with a window facing a window three times over.

⁵And all the doorways and doorposts were square-framed; and window facing window in three tiers.

⁶And the Hall of Pillars he made: fifty cubits its length and thirty cubits its width; and a vestibule was before them, with pillars and a canopy before them.

⁷And the Hall of the Throne where he would judge — the Hall of Justice he made, covered with cedar from the floor to the ceiling.

⁸And his house where he would dwell — the other court within the Hall — was of like construction. And a house Solomon made for the daughter of Pharaoh whom he had taken — like this Hall.

⁹All these were of precious stones, according to the measure of hewn stone, sawn with a saw, inside and outside, from the foundation to the coping, and outside to the great court.

¹⁰And the foundation was of precious stones, large stones — stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

¹¹And above were precious stones according to measure — hewn stone — and cedar.

¹²And the great court all around had three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams, like the inner court of the house of the LORD and the porch of the house.

¹³And King Solomon sent and took Hiram from Tyre.

¹⁴He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a Tyrian man, a bronze craftsman; and he was filled with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge to do all work in bronze; and he came to King Solomon and did all his work.

¹⁵And he cast the two bronze pillars; eighteen cubits was the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits would encircle the second pillar.

¹⁶And two capitals he made — cast of bronze — to set upon the tops of the pillars; five cubits was the height of the one capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.

¹⁷Latticeworks of netting and tassels of chain, for the capitals that were on top of the pillars — seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital.

¹⁸And he made the pillars with two rows all around on the one network to cover the capital on top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the second capital.

¹⁹And the capitals that were on top of the pillars were of lily-work in the porch — four cubits.

²⁰And the capitals on both pillars — also above, adjacent to the rounded belly that was beside the network — and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows around the second capital.

²¹And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple; and he set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar and called its name Boaz.

²²And on top of the pillars was lily-work; and the work of the pillars was complete.

²³And he made the molten sea: ten cubits from brim to brim, round all around; five cubits its height; and a measuring-line of thirty cubits encircled it all around.

²⁴And gourds below its rim, going all around encircling it — ten per cubit encircling the Sea all around; two rows of gourds cast in its casting.

²⁵Standing upon twelve oxen: three facing northward, and three facing westward, and three facing southward, and three facing eastward; and the Sea was upon them from above; and all their hindquarters were inward.

²⁶Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it held two thousand baths.

²⁷And he made ten bronze stands; four cubits the length of each stand and four cubits its width and three cubits its height.

²⁸And this was the construction of the stands: they had frames, and the frames were between the cross-bars.

²⁹And on the frames between the cross-bars were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the cross-bars, likewise above and below the lions and the oxen, were hanging wreaths.

³⁰And each stand had four bronze wheels and bronze axles; and its four supports had cast wreaths on each side, below the laver.

³¹And its opening was inside the capital and upward — a cubit; its opening was round, of stand-work, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening were carvings, and the frames were square, not round.

³²And the four wheels were underneath the frames, and the wheel axles were in the stand; and the height of each wheel was a cubit and a half.

³³And the construction of the wheels was like the construction of a chariot wheel; their axles and their rims and their spokes and their hubs — all cast.

³⁴And four shoulders at the four corners of each base; from the base its shoulders.

³⁵And at the top of the base was a half-cubit height, round all around; and upon the top of the base its supports and its border were from it.

³⁶And he engraved on the panels and on their borders cherubim, lions, and palm trees — as many as each space allowed — and wreaths all around.

³⁷After this manner he made the ten stands — one casting, one measure, one shape for all of them.

³⁸And he made ten bronze lavers; each laver held forty baths — each laver was four cubits — one laver upon each of the ten stands.

³⁹And he placed five stands on the right side of the house and five on its left side; and the sea he placed on the right side of the house, to the east, opposite the south.

⁴⁰And Hiram made the lavers, the shovels, and the bowls; and Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon for the house of the LORD.

⁴¹The two pillars and the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars.

⁴²And the pomegranates — four hundred for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowl-capitals that were upon the pillars.

⁴³And the ten bases and the ten lavers upon the bases.

⁴⁴And the one Sea and the twelve oxen under the Sea.

⁴⁵And the pots and the shovels and the basins — and all these vessels that Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD — burnished bronze.

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

⁴⁷And Solomon left all the vessels — because of the exceeding great quantity, the weight of the bronze was not determined.

⁴⁸And Solomon made all the vessels for the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the table upon which was the bread of the Presence — gold.

⁴⁹And the lampstands — five on the right and five on the left — before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs — gold.

⁵⁰And the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the censers — pure gold; and the hinges for the doors of the inner house, for the Holy of Holies, and for the doors of the nave — gold.

⁵¹And all the work that King Solomon did for the house of the LORD was completed; and Solomon brought in the holy things of David his father — the silver and the gold and the vessels — and placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.