Chapter 7

¹ And King Solomon sent, and took Hiram out of Tyre, ² the son of a widow woman; and he [was] of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father [was] a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in art and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to King Solomon, and he wrought all the works.

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³ And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the house: eighteen cubits [was] the height of [each] pillar, and a circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of the pillar: the flutings [were] four fingers [wide], and thus [was] the other pillar [formed]. ⁴ And he made two molten chapiters to put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits [was] the height of one chapiter, and five cubits [was] the height of the other chapiter. ⁵ And he made two ornaments of network to cover the chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter. ⁶ And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, formed with network, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed [the ornaments] for the second chapiter. ⁷ And he set up the pillars of the porch of the temple: and he set up the one pillar, and called its name Jachin: and he set up the second pillar, and called its name Boaz. ⁸ And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits, ⁹ and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition [equal to] the chamber in width.

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¹⁰ And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was completely circular round about: its height [was] five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits. ¹¹ And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round; ¹² and its rim [was] as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily flower, and the thickness of it [was] a span. ¹³ And [there were] twelve oxen under the sea; three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts [were] inward, and the sea [was] above upon them.

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¹⁴ And he made ten brazen bases: five cubits [was] the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and its height [was] six cubits. ¹⁵ And this work of the bases [was] formed with a border to them, and [there was] a border between the ledges. ¹⁶ And upon their borders between the projections [were] lions, and oxen, and cherubs: and on the projections, even so above, and also below [were] the places of lions and oxen, hanging work. ¹⁷ And [there were] four brazen wheels to one base; and [there were] brazen bases, and their four sides [answering to them], side pieces under the bases. ¹⁸ And [there were] axles in the wheels under the base. And the height of one wheel [was] a cubit and a half. ¹⁹ And the work of the wheels [was] as the work of chariot wheels: their axles, and their felloes, and [the rest of] their work, [were] all molten. ²⁰ The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders [were formed] of the base. ²¹ And on the top of the base half a cubit [was] the size of it, [there was] a circle on the top of the base, and [there was] the top of its spaces and its borders: and it was open at the top of its spaces. ²² And its borders [were] cherubs, and lions, and palm trees, upright, each [was] joined in front [and] within and round about. ²³ According to the same form he made all the ten bases, [even] one order and one measure to all. ²⁴ And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty baths, [and] measuring four cubits, each laver [placed] on a several base throughout the ten bases. ²⁵ And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.

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²⁶ And Hiram made the caldrons, and the pans, and the bowls; and Hiram finished making all the works that he wrought for King Solomon in the house of the Lord: ²⁷ two pillars and the wreathen works of the pillars on the heads of the two pillars; and the two networks to cover both the wreathen works of the flutings that were upon the pillars. ²⁸ The four hundred pomegranates for both the networks, two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover both the wreathen works of the bases belonging to both pillars. ²⁹ And the ten bases, and the ten lavers upon the bases. ³⁰ And one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea. ³¹ And the caldrons, and pans, and bowls, and all the furniture, which Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord: and [there were] eight and forty pillars of the house of the king and of the house of the Lord: all the works of the king which Hiram made were entirely of brass. ³² There was no reckoning of the brass of which he made all these works, from the very great abundance, there was no end of the weight of the brass. ³³ In the country round about Jordan did he cast them, in the clay land between Succoth and Zarethan.

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³⁴ And King Solomon took the furniture which [Hiram] made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the golden table of showbread. ³⁵ And [he put] the five candlesticks on the left, and five on the right in front of the oracle, [being] of pure gold, and the lampstands, and the lamps, and the snuffers of gold. ³⁶ And [there were made] the porches, and the nails, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the golden censers, of pure gold: and the panels of the doors of the innermost part of the house, [even] the holy of holies, and the golden doors of the temple.

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³⁷ So the work of the house of the Lord which Solomon wrought was finished; and Solomon brought in the holy things of David his father, and all the holy things of Solomon; he put the silver, and the gold, and the furniture, into the treasures of the house of the Lord.

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³⁸ And Solomon built a house for himself in thirteen years. ³⁹ And he built the house with the wood of Lebanon; its length [was] a hundred cubits, and its breadth [was] fifty cubits, and its height [was] of thirty cubits, and [it was made] with three rows of cedar pillars, and the pillars had side pieces of cedar. ⁴⁰ And he formed the house with chambers above on the sides of the pillars, and the number of the pillars [was each] row forty and five, ⁴¹ and [there were] three chambers, and space against space in three rows. ⁴² And all the doors and spaces formed like chambers [were] square, and from door to door [was a correspondence] in three rows. ⁴³ And [he made] the porch of the pillars, [they were] fifty [cubits] long and fifty broad, the porch joining them in front; and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] in front of the house by the porches. ⁴⁴ And [there was] the Porch of seats where he would judge, the porch of judgment.

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⁴⁵ And their house where he would dwell, [had] one court communicating with these according to this work; and [he built] the house for the daughter of Pharaoh whom Solomon had taken, according to this porch.

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⁴⁶ All these [were] of costly stones, sculptured at intervals within even from the foundation even to the top, and outward to the great court, ⁴⁷ founded with large costly stones, stones of ten cubits and eight cubits [long]. ⁴⁸ And above with costly stones, according to the measure of hewn stones, and with cedars. ⁴⁹ [There were] three rows of hewn [stones] round about the great hall, and a row of sculptured cedar: ⁵⁰ and Solomon finished all his house.

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