1 Kings 7

Sulayman was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. ²For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, and its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. ³It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row. ⁴There were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks. ⁵All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks. ⁶He made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its width thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them. ⁷He 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. ⁸His house where he was to live, the other court within the porch, was similar in design. He made also a house for Firaun's daughter (whom Sulayman had taken as wife), like this porch. ⁹All these were of costly stones cut to size, trimmed with saws, inside and out, even from the foundation to the eaves, and so on the outside to the great court. ¹⁰The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. ¹¹Above were costly stones cut to size, and cedar-wood. ¹²The great court all around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of the house of Allah, and the porch of the house. ¹³King Sulayman sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. ¹⁴He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in bronze. He came to king Sulayman, and performed all his work. ¹⁵For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encompassed each of them. ¹⁶He made two capitals of cast metal bronze, 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. ¹⁷There 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. ¹⁸So he made the pillars; and there were two rows all around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital. ¹⁹The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits. ²⁰There 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 all around on the other capital. ²¹He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz. ²²On the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished. ²³He made the sea of cast metal of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape, and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it all around. ²⁴Under its brim all around there were buds which encircled it, for ten cubits, circling the sea all around: the buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. ²⁵It 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 back parts were facing inward. ²⁶It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. ²⁷He made the ten bases of bronze; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. ²⁸The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges; ²⁹and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and karubin; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. ³⁰Every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of bronze; and its four feet had supports: beneath the basin the supports were cast metal, with wreaths at the side of each. ³¹The 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. ³²The 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. ³³The 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 cast metal. ³⁴There were four supports at the four corners of each base: the supports of it were of the base itself. ³⁵In the top of the base was there a round shape half a cubit high; and on the top of the base the stays of it and the panels of it were of the same. ³⁶On the plates of the stays of it, and on the panels of it, he engraved karubin, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around. ³⁷After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. ³⁸He made ten basins of bronze: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on very one of the ten bases one basin. ³⁹He 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. ⁴⁰Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Sulayman in the house of Allah: ⁴¹the 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; ⁴²and 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; ⁴³and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases; ⁴⁴and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; ⁴⁵and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Sulayman, in the house of Allah, were of burnished bronze. ⁴⁶In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. ⁴⁷Sulayman left all the vessels unweighed, because they were too many: the weight of the bronze could not be found out. ⁴⁸Sulayman made all the vessels that were in the house of Allah: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold; ⁴⁹and the lampstands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; ⁵⁰and 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. ⁵¹Thus all the work that king Sulayman worked in the house of Allah was finished. Sulayman brought in the things which Dawud his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Allah.