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.
