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1 But Solomon was building
his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2 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.
3 And it was covered with cedar
above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a
row.
4 And there were windows in
three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
5 And all the doors and posts were
square, with the windows: and light was against light in three
ranks.
6 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.
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.
8 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.
9 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.
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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