Holy Bible
(King James Version)
First
Kings: Chapter 7
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
Phar-aoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto his 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 Naph-ta-li, 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 Ja-chin: and he set up the
left pillar, and called the name there 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 cher-u-bims: 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 the 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 Cher-u-bims, 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 basins. 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 basins: 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 basins, and the spoons, and
the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of
the inner house, and 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.
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