3 Kingdoms 7

1Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

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2He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze worker; he was filled with skill, understanding, and knowledge in working with all kinds of bronze work. So he was brought to King Solomon and did all his work.

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3He cast two pillars for the porch of the house, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of fourteen cubits measured the circumference of each; and the thickness was four fingers to the hollow portion, and the second pillar was similar.

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4Then he made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other, five cubits.

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5He made two lattice-works to cover the capitals on top of the pillars, a lattice-work for one capital and a lattice-work for the other capital.

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6And he made a hanging work, two rows of cast copper pomegranates, a hanging work, row upon row; and he did the same for the other capital.

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7Then he set up the pillars by the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the right, and called it Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the left, and called it Boaz.

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8The capitals on the pillars in the hall were in the shape of lilies, four cubits high.

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9There was a roof on both pillars, and beyond the sides was a capital, one beam in thickness.

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10He made the sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. It was five cubits high and thirty cubits around the circumference.

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11Below its brim were supports encircling it all around, ten cubits high, all the way around to hold up the sea.

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12Its mouth was as the mouth of a drinking vessel, a lily blossom, and it was a handbreadth in thickness.

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13There were twelve oxen under the sea. Three looked toward the north, three looked toward the west, three looked toward the south, and three looked toward the east. All their back parts pointed inward and the sea was set upon them.

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14He also made ten bases of bronze; each base was five cubits long, four cubits wide, and six cubits high.

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15This was the design of the bases. They had panels, and the panels were between the reliefs;

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16the reliefs were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and below the lions and oxen were spaces for a hanging work.

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17Every base had four bronze wheels, and the attachments to the wash basins were bronze, with four parts to them, and supports under each wash basin,

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18and axles of bronze; and the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half.

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19The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel; their axle pins, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all of cast bronze.

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20There were four supports at the four corners of each base; its supports were part of the base itself.

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21On the top of the base, at the height of half a cubit, it was perfectly round. And on the top of the base, its axles and its panels were of the same casting.

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22On its panels he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, wherever there was a clear space on each; and they went all around.

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23Thus he made the ten bases. There was one pattern and one measure in all of them.

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24Then he made ten washbasins of bronze; each washbasin contained forty baths. On each of the ten bases was a washbasin.

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25He put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house, toward the southeast.

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26Hiram made the washbasin, the shovels, and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work he was to do for King Solomon for the house of the Lord:

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27the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the two pillars; the two lattice-works covering the two bowlshaped capitals on top of the pillars;

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28four hundred pomegranates for the two lattice-works (two rows of pomegranates for each lattice-work, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);

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29the ten bases, and ten washbasins on the bases;

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30one sea and twelve oxen under the sea,

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31the pots, the shovels, and all the equipment. Hiram made all these articles for King Solomon for the house of the Lord. All the works Hiram made for the king, the forty-eight pillars of the king's house and the house of the Lord, were entirely of bronze.

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32There was no measure of the bronze from which he made all these works in such great number. There was no limit to the measure of the bronze.

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33In the plain of Jordan, the king had them cast in clay molds, between Succoth and Seir.

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34Thus Solomon dedicated all the furnishings he made for the house of the Lord: the altar of gold; the table on which was the showbread, also of gold;

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35the lamp stands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary, with the oil containers; the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold;

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36the doorways, the nails, the bowls, the dishes, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner room—that is, the holy of holies—and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

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37So all the work King Solomon did for the Lord's house was finished, and Solomon brought in the holy things of his father David and all the holy things of Solomon, the silver and gold furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the Lord's house.

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38Now Solomon took thirteen years to build his own house.

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39He built his house with wood of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with three rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams on the pillars.

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40He roofed the house with cedar above the beams on forty-five pillars, fifteen to a row.

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41There were three beams and a joint upon a joint, three times over.

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42All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames; and the windows were opposite one another in three tiers.

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43He also made the porch of pillars. It was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. In front of them was a portico with pillars, and a canopy was in front of them.

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44Then he made a porch for the throne, the hall of judgment, where he might judge.

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45The house where he dwelt had one courtyard that had access to these, of similar workmanship. Solomon also made a house across from this porch for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken as wife.

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46All these things were made out of costly stones that had been fastened at the spaces inside, and at the foundation up to the eaves, and outside as far as the great courtyard,

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47where the foundation was laid with huge costly stones, ten cubits and eight cubits high,

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48Very costly, according to measure, uncut, and with cedars.

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49For the great courtyard round about, there were three rows uncut, and a row fastened with cedar.

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50And Solomon completed his whole house.

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