1And Solomon 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 a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3And it was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were upon the pillars; fifteen in a row. 4And there were beams in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers. 5And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was opposite window in three tiers. 6And he made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a canopy before them. 7And he made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor. 8And his house where he was to dwell, the other court inside the porch, was of the same work. 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 cut stone, 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. 10And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 11And above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. 12And the great court all around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; just as the inner court of the house of Yehovah, and the porch of the house. 13And king 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 do all work in bronze. And he came to king Solomon, and did all his work. 15For he cast the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high each: and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each. 16And he made two capitals of cast bronze, to set upon 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 upon 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 all around upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars: and so he did for the other capital. 19And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits. 20And there were capitals above also upon the two pillars, close by the rounded projection which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows all around upon the other capital. 21And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz. 22And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished. 23And he made the cast sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape, and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. 24And under its brim all around there were gourds which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea all around: the gourds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 25It stood upon twelve oxen, three facing north, and three facing west, and three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set upon them above, and all their rear parts were inward. 26And it was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. 27And he made the ten stands of bronze; four cubits was the length of one stand, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height. 28And the work of the stands was in this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the frames; 29and on the panels that were between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and upon the frames there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 30And every stand had four bronze wheels, and axles of bronze; and its four feet had supports: beneath the basin were the supports cast, with wreaths at the side of each. 31And its mouth within the capital and above was a cubit: and its mouth was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon its mouth were engravings, and their panels were square, not round. 32And the four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the stand: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 33And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axles, and their rims, and their spokes, and their hubs, were all cast. 34And there were four supports at the four corners of each stand: its supports were of the stand itself. 35And in the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the stand its stays and its panels were of the same. 36And on the plates of its stays, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around. 37In this manner he made the ten stands: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. 38And he made ten basins of bronze: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and upon every one of the ten stands one basin. 39And he set the bases, five 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, toward the south. 40And Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he did for king Solomon in the house of Yehovah: 41the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; 42and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars; 43and the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands; 44and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; 45and the pots, and the shovels, and the bowls: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon, in the house of Yehovah, were of burnished bronze. 46In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. 47And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceedingly many: the weight of the bronze could not be found out. 48And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yehovah: the golden altar, and the table on which the showbread was, of gold; 49and the lampstands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; 50and the cups, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the firepans, 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, that is, of the temple, of gold. 51Thus all the work that king Solomon did in the house of Yehovah was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yehovah.