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1 But Solomon was build­ing his own house thir­teen years, and he fin­ished all his house. 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. 3 And it was cov­ered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pil­lars, fif­teen in a row. 4 And there were win­dows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. 5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the win­dows: and light was against light in three ranks. 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. 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. 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. 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. 10 And the foun­da­tion was of cost­ly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cu­bits, and stones of eight cu­bits. 11 And above were cost­ly stones, af­ter the mea­sures of hewed stones, and cedars. 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. 13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hi­ram out of Tyre. 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. 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. 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: 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. 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. 19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pil­lars were of lily work in the porch, four cu­bits. 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. 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. 22 And upon the top of the pil­lars was lily work: so was the work of the pil­lars fin­ished. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had bor­ders, and the bor­ders were be­tween the ledges: 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. 30 And ev­ery base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four cor­ners there­of had un­der­set­ters: un­der the laver were un­der­set­ters molten, at the side of ev­ery ad­di­tion. 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. 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. 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. 34 And there were four un­der­set­ters to the four cor­ners of one base: and the un­der­set­ters were of the very base it­self. 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. 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. 37 Af­ter this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one cast­ing, one mea­sure, and one size. 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. 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. 40 And Hi­ram made the lavers, and the shov­els, and the ba­sons. So Hi­ram made an end of do­ing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD: 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; 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; 43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen un­der the sea; 45 And the pots, and the shov­els, and the ba­sons: and all these ves­sels, which Hi­ram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass. 46 In the plain of Jor­dan did the king cast them, in the clay ground be­tween Suc­coth and Zarthan. 47 And Solomon left all the ves­sels unweighed, be­cause they were ex­ceed­ing many: nei­ther was the weight of the brass found out. 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 shew­bread was, 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, 50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the ba­sons, 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. 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.