[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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