7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and
he finished all his house.
7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length
[was] a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its
hight thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with
cedar beams upon the pillars.
7:3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that
[lay] on forty-five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
7:4 And [there were] windows in three rows, and light [was]
against light [in] three ranks.
7:5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows:
and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
7:6 And he made a porch of pillars; its length [was] fifty
cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits: and the porch [was]
before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beams [were]
before them.
7:7 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.
7:8 And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the
porch, [which] was of the like work. Solomon made also a house
for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married, like to this
porch.
7:9 All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures
of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from
the foundation to the coping, and [so] on the outside towards
the great court.
7:10 And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great
stones; stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
7:11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewn
stones, and cedars.
7:12 And the great court around [was] with three rows of hewn
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.
7:13 And king Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
7:14 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 ingenious to work
all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought
all his work.
7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, each of eighteen cubits
high: and a line of twelve cubits did encompass each of them.
7:16 And he made two capitals [of] molten brass, to set upon the
tops of the pillars: the hight of the one capital [was] five
cubits, and the hight of the other capital [was] five cubits:
7:17 [And] 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.
7:18 And he made the pillars, and two rows around upon the one
net-work, to cover the capitals that [were] upon the top, with
pomegranates: and so he did for the other capital.
7:19 And the capitals that [were] upon the top of the pillars
[were] of lily-work in the porch, four cubits.
7:20 And the capitals upon the two pillars [had pomegranates]
also above, over against the belly which [was] by the net-work:
and the pomegranates [were] two hundred in rows around upon the
other capital.
7:21 And he set up the pillars in 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.
7:22 And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily-work: so was the
work of the pillars finished.
7:23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to
the other: [it was] entirely round, and its hight [was] five
cubits: and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it.
7:24 And under the brim of it around [there were] knobs
compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea around: the
knobs [were] cast in two rows, when it was cast.
7:25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking towards the north,
and three looking towards the west, and three looking towards
the south, and three looking towards the east: and the sea [was
set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.
7:26 And it [was] a hand-breadth thick, and its brim was wrought
like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained
two thousand baths.
7:27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits [was] the
length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and
three cubits the hight of it.
7:28 And the work of the bases [was] in this [manner]: They had
borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:
7:29 And on the borders that [were] between the ledges [were]
lions, oxen, and cherubim: and upon the ledges [there was] a
base above: and beneath the lions and oxen [were] certain
additions made of thin work.
7:30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass:
and the four corners of it had undersetters: under the laver
[were] undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
7:31 And the mouth of it within the capital and above [was] a
cubit: but the mouth of it [was] round [after] the work of the
base, a cubit and a half: and also upon the mouth of it [were]
gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
7:32 And under the borders [were] four wheels; and the axletrees
of the wheels [were joined] to the base: and the hight of a
wheel [was] a cubit and half a cubit.
7:33 And the work of the wheels [was] like the work of a chariot
wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their fellies, and
their spokes, [were] all molten.
7:34 And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners of
one base: [and] the undersetters [were] of the very base
itself.
7:35 And in the top of the base [was there] a round compass of
half a cubit high: and on the top of the base its ledges and
its borders [were] of the same.
7:36 For on the plates of its ledges, and on its borders, he
graved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the
proportion of every one, and additions around.
7:37 After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them had
one casting, one measure, [and] one size.
7:38 Then he made 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.
7:39 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.
7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins.
So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he executed for
king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
7:41 The two pillars, and the [two] bowls of the capitals that
[were] on the top of the two pillars; and the two net-works, to
cover the two bowls of the capitals which [were] upon the top
of the pillars;
7:42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two net-works, [even]
two rows of pomegranates for one net-work, to cover the two
bowls of the capitals that [were] upon the pillars;
7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all
these vessels which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of
the LORD, [were of] bright brass.
7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they
were very numerous: neither was the weight of the brass
ascertained.
7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained] to the
house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold,
upon which [was] the show-bread,
7:49 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,
7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, 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.
7:51 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, he placed among the treasures of the
house of the LORD.
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