1 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 of it was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and
the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar
beams on the pillars. 3 It was covered with cedar above over the
forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row. 4 There were
beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.
5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over
against window in three ranks. 6 He made the porch of pillars; the length
of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it thirty cubits; and a porch
before them; and pillars and a threshold before them. 7 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 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 as wife), like this porch.
9 All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to
measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the
coping, and so on the outside to the great court. 10 The foundation was of
costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight
cubits. 11 Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to
measure, and cedar-wood. 12 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 Yahweh, and the porch of the house. 13 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.
He came to king Solomon, and performed 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 He made two capitals of molten
brass, to set on 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 on 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 on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the
pillars: and so did he for the other capital. 19 The capitals that were on
the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
20 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly
which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows
round about on the other capital. 21 He set up the pillars at the porch of
the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name of it Jachin;
and he set up the left pillar, and called the name of it Boaz. 22 On the
top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23 He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in
compass, and the height of it was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits
compassed it round about. 24 Under the brim of it round about there were
buds which did compass it, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about:
the buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 25 It stood on 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 on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward. 26 It
was a handbreadth thick: and the brim of it was worked like the brim of a
cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. 27 He made the
ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits
the breadth of it, and three cubits the height of it. 28 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 on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath
the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 30 Every base had four
brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet of it had supports:
beneath the basin were the supports molten, with wreaths at the side of each.
31 The mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and the mouth
of it was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on
the mouth of it were engravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.
32 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels
were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
33 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their
axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten.
34 There were four supports at the four corners of each base: the supports
of it were of the base itself. 35 In the top of the base was there a round
compass half a cubit high; and on the top of the base the stays of it and the
panels of it were of the same. 36 On the plates of the stays of it, and on
the panels of it, he engraved 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 He made ten basins of brass: one basin contained forty baths; and every
basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten bases one basin. 39 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 Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the
basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he worked for king
Solomon in the house of Yahweh: 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 on the pillars; 43 and the ten bases, and the ten basins 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 Yahweh, 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 Solomon left all the vessels
unweighed, because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass
could not be found out. 48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in the
house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread
was, of gold; 49 and the lampstands, 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 fire pans, 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 worked in the house of Yahweh was finished. 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
Yahweh.
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