| 1 And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he
finished all his house. 2 For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon;
the length thereof was a 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 over the forty and five beams, that were upon the pillars;
fifteen in a row. 4 And there were beams in three rows, and window was
over against window in three ranks. 5 And all the doors and posts were
made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
6 And he made the porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits,
and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars
and a threshold before them. 7 And he made the porch of the throne where
he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar
from floor to floor. 8 And his house where he was to dwell, the other
court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for
Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken to wife), like unto this porch.
9 All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to
measure, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto
the coping, and so on the outside unto 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, even hewn stone,
according to measure, and cedar-wood. 12 And the great court round about
had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the
inner court of the house of Jehovah, and the porch of the house.
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. 14 He was the
son of a widow 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 skill,
to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his
work. 15 For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high
apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of them about. 16 And
he made two capitals of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars:
the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other
capital was five cubits. 17 There were nets of checker-work, and wreaths
of chain-work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars; seven
for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. 18 So he made the
pillars; and there were two rows round about upon the one network, to cover
the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars: and so did he for the
other capital. 19 And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars
in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits. 20 And there were capitals
above also upon the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the
network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about upon the
other capital. 21 And he set up the pillars at 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 the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in
compass, and the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits
compassed it round about. 24 And under the brim of it round about there
were knops which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round
about: the knops were in two rows, cast 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 upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26 And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was wrought like
the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
27 And he made the 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 panels; and
there were panels between the ledges; 29 and on the panels that were
between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the ledges there
was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging
work. 30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and
the four feet thereof had undersetters: beneath the laver were the
undersetters molten, with wreaths at the side of each. 31 And the mouth of
it within the capital and above was a cubit: and the mouth thereof was round
after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of
it were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round. 32 And the
four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axletrees of the wheels were
in 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 felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all
molten. 34 And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each
base: the undersetters thereof were of the base itself. 35 And in the top
of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and on the top of
the base the stays thereof and the panels thereof were of the same. 36 And
on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the panels thereof, he graved
cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths
round about. 37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had
one casting, one measure, and one form.
38 And he made ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths; and
every laver was four cubits; and upon very one of the ten bases one laver.
39 And he set the bases, five 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, toward the south.
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram
made an end of doing all the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the
house of Jehovah: 41 the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals
that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two
bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; 42 and the four
hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each
network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;
43 and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases; 44 and the one
sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; 45 and the pots, and the shovels,
and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in
the house of Jehovah, were of burnished brass. 46 In the plain of the
Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and
Zarethan. 47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because
they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Jehovah: the
golden altar, and the table whereupon the showbread was, of gold; 49 and
the candlesticks, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the
oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
50 and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the
firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner
house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit,
of the temple, of gold.
51 Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the house of Jehovah was
finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had
dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put
them in the treasuries of the house of Jehovah.
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