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And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
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For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon: the length thereof was a 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.
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And it was covered with cedar above upon the side-chambers, that lay on forty and
five pillars, fifteen in a row.
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And there were beams in three rows; and light was over against light in three ranks.
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And all the doors with their posts were square in the frame; and light was over against
light in three ranks.
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And he made the porch of pillars: the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth
thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and thick beams before
them.
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And he made the porch of the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment;
and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
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And his house where he might dwell, in the other court, within the porch, was of the
like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken to
wife, like unto this porch.
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All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with
saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the
outside unto the great court.
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And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits,
and stones of eight cubits.
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And above were costly stones, after the measure of hewn stones, and cedar-wood.
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And the great court round about had three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar beams,
like as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the court of the porch of the
house.
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And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
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He was the son of a widow 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 skill, to work
all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
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Thus he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high each; and a line
of twelve cubits did compass it about; and so the other pillar.
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And he made two capitals of molten brass, 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.
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He also made 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.
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And he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about upon the one network,
to cover the capitals that were upon the top of the pomegranates; and so did he for
the other capital.
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And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work,
four cubits.
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And there were capitals above also upon the two pillars, close by the belly which
was beside the network; and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about
upon each capital.
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And he set up the pillars at 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.
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And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work; so was the work of the pillars finished.
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And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and
the height thereof was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round
about.
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And under the brim of it round about there were knops which did compass it, for ten
cubits, compassing the sea round about; the knops were in two rows, cast when it was
cast.
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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 upon them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.
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And it was a hand-breadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of
a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.
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And he made the 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.
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And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders; and there were borders
between the stays;
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and on the borders that were between the stays were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and
upon the stays it was in like manner above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths
of hanging work.
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And every base had four brazen wheels, and axles of brass; and the four feet thereof
had undersetters; beneath the laver were the undersetters molten, with wreaths at
the side of each.
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And the mouth of it within the crown and above was a cubit high; and the mouth thereof
was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth
of it were gravings; and their borders were foursquare, not round.
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And the four wheels were underneath the borders; and the axletrees of the wheels were
in the base; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
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And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel; their axletrees,
and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten.
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And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base; the undersetters
thereof were of one piece with the base itself.
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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 stays thereof and the borders thereof were of one piece therewith.
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And on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubim,
lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.
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After this manner he made the ten bases; all of them had one casting, one measure,
and one form.
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And he made 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.
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And 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.
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And Hiram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end
of doing all the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of the LORD:
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the 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;
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and 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 top of the
pillars;
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and the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;
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and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
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and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins; even all these vessels, which Hiram
made for king Solomon, in the house of the LORD, were of burnished brass.
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In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth
and Zarethan.
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And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many; the
weight of the brass could not be found out.
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And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of the LORD: the golden altar,
and the table whereupon the showbread was, of gold;
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and the candlesticks, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the Sanctuary,
of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;
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and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the pans, and the fire-pans, 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.
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Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the house of the LORD was finished.
And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver,
and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of the
LORD.