1KI-7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years,

and he finished all his house.

1KI-7:2 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.

1KI-7:3 And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams,

that [lay] on forty five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.

1KI-7:4 And [there were] windows [in] three rows, and light

[was] against light [in] three ranks.

1KI-7:5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the

windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.

1KI-7:6 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.

1KI-7:7 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.

1KI-7:8 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.

1KI-7:9 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.

1KI-7:10 And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great

stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

1KI-7:11 And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of

hewed stones, and cedars.

1KI-7:12 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.

1KI-7:13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.

1KI-7:14 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.

1KI-7:15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits

high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of

them about.

1KI-7:16 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:

1KI-7:17 [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.

1KI-7:18 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.

1KI-7:19 And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the

pillars [were] of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

1KI-7:20 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.

1KI-7:21 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.

1KI-7:22 And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was

the work of the pillars finished.

1KI-7:23 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.

1KI-7:24 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.

1KI-7:25 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.

1KI-7:26 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.

1KI-7:27 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.

1KI-7:28 And the work of the bases [was] on this [manner]: they

had borders, and the borders [were] between the ledges:

1KI-7:29 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.

1KI-7:30 And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of

brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the

laver [were] undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.

1KI-7:31 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.

1KI-7:32 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.

1KI-7:33 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.

1KI-7:34 And [there were] four undersetters to the four corners

of one base: [and] the undersetters [were] of the very base

itself.

1KI-7:35 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.

1KI-7:36 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.

1KI-7:37 After this [manner] he made the ten bases: all of them

had one casting, one measure, [and] one size.

1KI-7:38 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.

1KI-7:39 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.

1KI-7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the

basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made

king Solomon for the house of the LORD:

1KI-7:41 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;

1KI-7:42 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;

1KI-7:43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;

1KI-7:44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

1KI-7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all

these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of

the LORD, [were of] bright brass.

1KI-7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the

clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.

1KI-7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because

they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass

found out.

1KI-7:48 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 showbread [was],

1KI-7:49 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,

1KI-7:50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, 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.

1KI-7:51 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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