# 1 Kings 7

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1. Solomon spent thirteen years building his own palace, and he finished his entire palace.
2. He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams resting on the pillars.
3. It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars, forty-five of them, fifteen to a row.
4. There were window frames in three rows, with window facing window in three tiers.
5. All the doorways and doorposts had square frames, with window facing window in three tiers.
6. He made the Hall of Pillars fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. In front of it was a porch, with pillars and a canopy in front of them.
7. He made the Hall of the Throne, the Hall of Judgment, where he was to judge, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.
8. His own house where he was to live, in the other courtyard 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 married.
9. All these were made of costly stones, dressed stone cut to measure and trimmed with saws on the inside and outside, from the foundation to the coping, and on the outside as far as the great courtyard.
10. The foundation was of costly stones, large stones, some ten cubits and some eight cubits long.
11. Above were costly stones, dressed stone cut to measure, and cedar.
12. The great courtyard all around had three courses of dressed stone and one course of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the house of Yahweh and the porch of the house.
13. King Solomon sent for Hiram and brought him from Tyre.
14. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze worker. Hiram was filled with wisdom, understanding, and skill to do any kind of work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
15. He cast the two bronze pillars. Each pillar was eighteen cubits high, and it took a line of twelve cubits to measure around each one.
16. He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. One capital was five cubits high, and the other capital was five cubits high.
17. There were nets of latticework and wreaths of chainwork for the capitals on the tops of the pillars, seven for one capital and seven for the other capital.
18. He made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each latticework to cover the capitals at the top of the pillars; he did the same for the other capital.
19. The capitals on the tops of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits high.
20. On the capitals of the two pillars, above and close to the rounded bulge next to the latticework, were two hundred pomegranates in rows all around; it was the same on the other capital.
21. He set up the pillars at the porch of the main hall. He set up the pillar on the right and named it Jakin, and he set up the pillar on the left and named it Boaz.
22. The tops of the pillars were of lily design. So the work on the pillars was finished.
23. He made the Sea of cast metal, ten cubits from rim to rim. It was completely round, five cubits high, and it took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.
24. Under its rim all around were gourds encircling it, ten to a cubit, surrounding the Sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast in one piece with it.
25. It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and all their hindquarters were toward the inside.
26. It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was made like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.
27. He also made the ten bronze stands. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
28. This is how the stands were made: they had panels, and the panels were set between the frames.
29. On the panels between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the frames, both above and below the lions and oxen, were wreaths of hanging work.
30. Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each.
31. Its opening inside the crown projected upward one cubit. Its opening was round, made like a pedestal, measuring a cubit and a half. Around its opening there were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.
32. The four wheels were under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were fixed to the stand. Each wheel was a cubit and a half high.
33. The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.
34. There were four supports at the four corners of each stand; the supports were of one piece with the stand.
35. At the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high. On the top of the stand, its braces and its panels were of one piece with it.
36. On the surfaces of its braces and on its panels he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, as the space on each allowed, with wreaths all around.
37. In this way he made the ten stands. All of them were cast alike, with the same measurements and the same shape.
38. He made ten bronze basins. Each basin held forty baths and measured four cubits. There was one basin on each of the ten stands.
39. He put five of the stands on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house. He put the Sea on the right side of the house, toward the southeast.
40. Hiram also made the basins, the shovels, and the sprinkling bowls. So Hiram finished all the work he did for King Solomon on the house of Yahweh:
41. the two pillars; the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the two pillars; the two sets of latticework to cover the two bowls of the capitals on top of the pillars;
42. the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of latticework, two rows of pomegranates for each lattice, to cover the two bowls of the capitals 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. and the pots, the shovels, and the sprinkling bowls. All these utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of Yahweh were of burnished bronze.
46. The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
47. Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because there were so very many; the weight of the bronze was never determined.
48. Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar; the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence;
49. the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold;
50. the cups, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and firepans of pure gold; and the gold sockets for the doors of the inner house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the house, the main hall.
51. So all the work that King Solomon did on the house of Yahweh was completed. Then Solomon brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the utensils—and he put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.

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