¹Solomon 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, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars , with cedar beams on the pillars .[#7:2 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres.]

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 facing window in three ranks .

⁵All the doors and posts were made square with beams; and window was facing window in three ranks .

⁶He made the hall of pillars . Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with 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 judgement; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor .

⁸His house where he was to dwell , the other court within the porch, was of the same construction. He made also a house for Pharaoh ’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.

⁹All these were of costly stones , even of stone cut according to measure , sawed with saws , inside and outside , even from the foundation to the coping , 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 , even cut stone , according to measure , and cedar wood.

¹²The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams , like the inner court of the LORD ’s house and the porch of the house .

¹³King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of 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 Solomon and performed all his work .

¹⁵For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze , eighteen cubits high apiece ; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them .

¹⁶He made two capitals of molten 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 of pomegranates around the one network , to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars ; and he did so 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 . There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital .

²¹He set up the pillars at the porch 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 .

²²On the tops of the pillars was lily work . So the work of the pillars was finished .

²³He made the molten sea ten cubits from brim to brim , round in shape. Its height was five cubits ; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it .

²⁴Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea . The buds were in two rows , cast when it was cast .

²⁵It stood on twelve oxen , three looking towards the north , and three looking towards the west , and three looking towards the south , and three looking towards the east ; and the sea was set on them above , and all their hindquarters were inward .

²⁶It was a hand width thick . 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 . The length of one base was four cubits, 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 cherubim ; 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 . The supports were cast beneath the basin , with wreaths at the side of each .

³¹Its opening within the capital and above was a cubit. Its opening was round like the work of a pedestal , a cubit and a half ; and also on its opening were engravings , and their panels were square , not round .

³²The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base . 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 , their rims , their spokes , and their hubs were all of cast metal.

³⁴There were four supports at the four corners of each base . Its supports were of the base itself.

³⁵In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high ; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same .

³⁶On the plates of its supports and on its panels, he engraved cherubim , lions, and palm trees , each in its space , with wreaths all around .

³⁷He made the ten bases in this way : all of them had one casting , one measure , and one form .

³⁸He made ten basins of bronze . One basin contained forty baths . Every basin measured four cubits. One basin was on every one of the ten bases .[#7:38 1 bath is one tenth of a cor, or about 5.6 U. S. gallons or 21 litres, so 40 baths was about 224 gallons or 840 litres.]

³⁹He set the bases , five 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 eastward and towards the south .

⁴⁰Hiram made the pots, the shovels , and the basins . So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for King Solomon in the LORD ’s house :

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

⁴²the 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 ;

⁴³the ten bases ; the ten basins on the bases ;

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

⁴⁵the pots ; the shovels ; and the basins . All of these vessels , which Hiram made for King Solomon in the LORD ’s house , were of burnished bronze .

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

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

⁴⁸Solomon made all the vessels that were in the LORD ’s house : the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on , of gold ;

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

⁵⁰the cups , the snuffers , the basins , 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 , of the temple , of gold .

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