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Solomon spent thirteen years building his own palace, until the whole of it was finished.
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, resting on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams laid across the pillars.
It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five of them, fifteen to a row.
There were three rows of window frames, window facing window in three tiers.
All the doorways and their frames were squared, and window faced window in three tiers.
He made the Hall of Pillars fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a porch in front of it, and pillars with a canopy in front of them.
He made the Hall of the Throne, where he would give judgment—the Hall of Judgment—and it was paneled with cedar from floor to rafters.[^1] [^1]: The Hebrew reads "from floor to floor."
His own residence, where he lived, was in the other court behind the hall, built in the same manner. He also built a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married.
All of these were of costly stones, cut to measure and trimmed with the saw on the inside and the outside, from the foundation up to the coping, and outside as far as the great court.
The foundation was of costly stones, great stones, some ten cubits and some eight cubits long.
Above these were costly stones, cut to measure, and cedar.
The great court had all around it three courses of dressed stone and one course of cedar beams, as did the inner court of the LORD's house and the vestibule of the house.
King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. He was filled with skill, understanding, and knowledge to do every kind of work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
He cast the two bronze pillars. One pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference; so also the second pillar.
He made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits high.
Lattices of woven mesh and wreaths of chainwork covered the capitals on the tops of the pillars—seven wreaths for each capital.
He made the pomegranates in two rows all around on the one network, to cover the capital at the top of the pillar, and he did the same for the other capital.
The capitals on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
On the capitals of the two pillars, above the rounded part next to the network, were two hundred pomegranates in rows all around, on the second capital as well.
He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the pillar on the south and named it Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and named it Boaz.
On the tops of the pillars was lily-work. So the work of the pillars was finished.
He made the sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from rim to rim, perfectly round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.
Under its rim, encircling it all around, were gourds, ten to a cubit, going all the way around the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast together with it.
It stood on twelve oxen: three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea rested on them, and all their hindquarters were turned inward.
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.
He also made ten bronze stands; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
This was the construction of the stands: they had side panels set within frames,
and on the panels between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim, and on the frames likewise above; beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; these supports were cast beneath the basin, and each had wreaths at the side.
Its opening, inside the crown at the top, was a cubit across; the opening was round, made like a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. On the opening too there were carvings, and its panels were square, not round.
The four wheels were underneath the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand. Each wheel was a cubit and a half high.
The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all cast.
There were four supports at the four corners of each stand, the supports being of one piece with the stand.
At the top of the stand was a round band half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and panels were of one piece with it.
On the plates of its stays and on its panels he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, wherever there was room, with wreaths all around.
This is how he made the ten stands: all of them cast alike, the same measure and the same form.
He made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths—about eight hundred liters—and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
He set five of the stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side, and he placed the sea at the southeast corner of the house.
Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the sprinkling bowls. So Hiram finished all the work he did for King Solomon on the house of the LORD:
the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;
the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands;
the one sea and the twelve oxen beneath it;
the pots, the shovels, and the basins. All these objects that Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of burnished bronze.
The king had them cast in the plain of the Jordan, in clay molds, between Succoth and Zarethan.
Solomon left all these vessels unweighed, for they were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which the bread of the Presence was set;
the lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, in front of the inner sanctuary; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
the cups, snuffers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and firepans of pure gold; and the gold sockets for the doors of the innermost room, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
When all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was finished, he brought in the sacred gifts of his father David—the silver, the gold, and the vessels—and placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.
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