1Kgs 7
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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; 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.
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And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were upon
the pillars; fifteen in a row.
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And there were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.
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And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against
window in three ranks.
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And he made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and the breadth
thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before
them.
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And 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.
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And his house where he was to dwell, 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 to this porch.
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All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to measure, sawed with
saws, within and without, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside
to 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, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
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And the great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar
beams; like as the inner court of the house of YHWH, and 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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For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high each: and a line of
twelve cubits compassed either of them about.
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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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There 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.
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So 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 pillars: 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 the other 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 its name 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
its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits compassed 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 handbreadth thick: and its brim 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 its breadth, and three cubits the height of it.
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And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels
between the ledges;
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and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and
upon the ledges there was a pedestal 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 capital and above was a cubit: and its mouth
was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth
of it were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.
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And the four wheels were underneath the panels; 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 the base itself.
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And in the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and on the
top of the base its stays and its panels were of the same.
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And on the plates of its stays, and on its panels, 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 very 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 lavers, 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 YHWH:
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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 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 YHWH, 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 YHWH: 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 oracle,
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 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, [to wit], of the temple, of gold.
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Thus all the work that king Solomon wrought in the house of YHWH 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 YHWH.