1 Kings 7

¹ Solomon was building his own house for thirteen years, and he finished his entire house.

² He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon, a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.

³ It was roofed with cedar above the chambers that were on the forty-five pillars—fifteen in a row.

⁴ There were window frames in three rows, and window faced window in three tiers.

⁵ All the doorways and windows had squared frames, and window faced window in three tiers.

⁶ He made the Hall of Pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a porch in front of them and pillars and a canopy in front of them.

⁷ He made the Hall of the Throne where he would judge—the Hall of Judgment—and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.

⁸ His own house where he would live, in the other court set back from the hall, was of the same workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken as wife.

⁹ All these were made of costly stones, cut to size, sawed with saws, inside and out, from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great court.

¹⁰ The foundation was of costly stones, great stones—stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

¹¹ Above were costly stones, cut to size, and cedar.

¹² The great court all around had three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of the house of the LORD and the vestibule of the house.

¹³ King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

¹⁴ He was the son of a widow woman from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. He was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill to do all work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.

¹⁵ He cast two pillars of bronze. The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each.

¹⁶ He made two capitals of cast 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.

¹⁷ There were nets of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on top of the pillars—seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital.

¹⁸ So he made the pillars, and two rows of pomegranates all around on the one network to cover the capitals that were on top. He did the same for the other capital.

¹⁹ The capitals that were on top of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily design, four cubits.

²⁰ The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above, close to the rounded projection beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows all around on each capital.

²¹ He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and called its name Boaz.

²² On top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished.

²³ Then he made the sea of cast metal, ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape, five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

²⁴ Under its brim were gourds all around, encircling it—ten to a cubit, going all the way around the sea. The gourds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

²⁵ It stood on twelve oxen: three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts were toward the inside.

²⁶ Its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.

²⁷ He also made ten bronze stands. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

²⁸ This was the design of the stands: they had panels, and the panels were set in frames.

²⁹ On the panels that were in the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, were wreaths of beveled work.

³⁰ Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Its four feet had supports; under the basin were cast supports with wreaths at the side of each.

³¹ Its opening inside the crown was one cubit deep. Its opening was round, like the design of a stand, a cubit and a half. Also on its opening were carvings, and their panels were square, not round.

³² The four wheels were under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were in the stand. The height of each wheel was a cubit and a half.

³³ The wheels were made like chariot wheels. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast.

³⁴ There were four supports at the four corners of each stand. The supports were of one piece with the stand.

³⁵ On top of the stand was a circular band half a cubit high. On top of the stand, its stays and its panels were of one piece with it.

³⁶ On the surfaces of its stays and on its panels he carved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space available on each, with wreaths all around.

³⁷ In this way he made the ten stands. All of them had the same casting, the same measurement, and the same form.

³⁸ He made ten bronze basins. Each basin held forty baths. Each basin was four cubits across. There was one basin for each of the ten stands.

³⁹ He set five stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side of the house. The sea he set on the southeast corner of the house.

⁴⁰ Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the LORD:

⁴¹ the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on top of the pillars;

⁴² 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 the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands;

⁴⁴ the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea;

⁴⁵ the pots, the shovels, and the basins. All these vessels that Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of burnished bronze.

⁴⁶ In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

⁴⁷ Solomon left all the vessels unweighed because there were so very many; the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

⁴⁸ Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence;

⁴⁹ the lampstands—five on the right side and five on the left—in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

⁵⁰ the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the dishes for incense, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges for the doors of the inner house (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the house (the main hall), of gold.

⁵¹ Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished. Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the vessels—and put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.