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Solomon was building his own house thirteen
years, and he finished all his house.
02 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.
03 And it was covered with cedar above upon the
beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in
a row.
04 And there were windows in three rows, and
light was against light in three ranks.
05 And all the doors and posts were square, with
the windows: and light was against light in three
ranks.
06 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.
07 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.
08 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.
09 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.
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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.
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