^K1But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. ^K2He 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. ^K3And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. ^K4And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. ^K5And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks. ^K6And 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. ^K7Then 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. ^K8And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch. ^K9All 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. ^K10And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. ^K11And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. ^K12And 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 YHVH, and for the porch of the house. ^K13And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. ^K14He was a widow’s son 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 cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work. ^K15For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. ^K16And 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: ^K17And 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. ^K18And 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. ^K19And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits. ^K20And 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.

^C15Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits. ^C16And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. ^K21/C17And he set up the pillars in the porch before the temple: one on the right hand, and the other on the left; 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. ^K22And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

^C1Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof. ^K23/C2And 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. ^K24/C3And under the brim of it round about there were knops [or] the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops [or] oxen were cast in two rows, when it was cast. ^K25/C4It 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. ^K26/C5And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: and it received and contained two [to] three thousand baths. ^K27And 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. ^K28And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges: ^K29And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. ^K30And 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. ^K31And 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. ^K32And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. ^K33And 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. ^K34And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself. ^K35And 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. ^K36For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about. ^K37After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size. ^K38/C6aThen made he also 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. ^K39a/C6bAnd he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house to wash in them: ^C6cSuch things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in. ^C7And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left. ^C8He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold. ^C9Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass. ^K39b/C10And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south. ^K40/C11And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. And Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of YHVH God: ^K41/C12To wit, the two pillars, and the two bowls and 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; ^K42/C13And 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; ^K43/C14And he made also the ten bases, and ten lavers made he upon the bases; ^K44/C15And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; ^K45/C16And the pots also, and the shovels, and the basons and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, which Hiram his father made to king Solomon for the house of YHVH, were of bright brass. ^K46/C17In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan [or] Zeredathah. ^K47/C18And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out. ^K48/C19And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of YHVH God: the altar of gold also, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was, ^K49a/C20And the candlesticks of pure gold with their lamps, five on the right side, and five on the left, that they should burn after the manner before the oracle, ^K49b/C21with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of gold, and that perfect gold; ^K50/C22And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the entry of the house, and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple, were of gold.

^K51/C1So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of YHVH. And Solomon brought in all 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 YHVH God.