1 Kings 7

14He was of the tribe of Nephthalaim, though his father was a Tyrian. He was a worker in brass, a complete artist, filled with understanding and knowledge to execute all kinds of brass work. So he was brought to king Solomon, and executed all his works.

15He cast two pillars for the porch of the house: the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and the circumference thereof fourteen cubits, and the flutings four fingers.

16And he cast two chapiters to be put on the tops of the pillars; the height of each chapiter was five cubits.

17He made also two pieces of net-work to cover the chapiters of the pillars; one piece of net-work for each chapiter.

18,20They were a pensile work, with two rows of brass pomegranates in the form of lattice-work, a pensile work, row above row.

21And he set up the two pillars in the porch of the temple. And when he set up the one pillar he called its name Jachum [Jachin]; and when he set up the other pillar he called its name Boloz [Boaz].

19,22And on the capitals of the pillars there was a lily-work of four cubits, towards the porch, and a projected ledge over the two pillars, and this ledge by its thickness was a covering above the sides.

23He made also the sea [or ceremonial reservoir], ten cubits from brim to brim, uniformly round, all about. It was five cubits high and thirty-three cubits in circumference.

24Under its brim, embossments surrounded it, ten to a cubit all around.

26And the brim of it was like the workmanship of the brim of a cup, with lily buds. And its thickness was a hand’s breadth.

25And under the sea were twelve bulls, three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east, and all their hinder parts were inward, and the sea was above upon them.

27And he made ten cisterns of brass, five cubits the length of one cistern, and four cubits the breadth, and six cubits the height.

28And the cisterns had all the same kind of engraved borders, and there were engravings between the prominences;

30And each cistern had four wheels of brass, and the naves were of brass, and at their four corners there were shoulders under the cisterns,

31for the axles of the wheels of each cistern.

33And the workmanship of the wheels was like that of the wheels of a chariot; and their axles and their felloes and their spokes were all cast.

35And on the top of the cistern there was a cylindrical border, of half a cubit broad, round about on the top of the cistern; and it was the beginning of its handles and its engravings; and there was a cock at the ends of its handles.

36And the sculptures thereon—the cherubims, and the lions, and the palm trees, were in relief, each being smooth on the inside all around.

37In the same manner he made all the ten cisterns, they being all of the same form and measure.

38He made also ten large pots of brass, each pot containing forty baths, and measuring four cubits. A large pot for every one of the ten cisterns.

39And he placed five cisterns at the right corner of the house, and five at the left corner of the house, and the sea was at the right corner, southward, facing the east.

41namely, the two pillars, and the wreathed works of the pillars on the chapiters of the two pillars, and the two pieces of net-work to cover the wreaths of the coverings which were on the pillars;

42the four hundred pomegranates on the two pieces of net-work, there being two rows of pomegranates to each piece of net-work for covering the wreaths of the chapiters on the two pillars;

43and the ten cisterns with the ten large pots for the cisterns;

44and the sea with the twelve bulls under the sea;

45and the kettles, and the cauldrons, and the bowls, and all the utensils which he made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord. Now the pillars for the house of the king, and for the house of the Lord, were in all forty-eight. All these works of the king, Chiram made entirely of brass.

46These he cast on the bank of the Jordan, in the clay ground, between Socchoth and Seira.

49and the five candlesticks on the left, and five on their right in front of the dabir, which were of beaten gold, and the lamp-stands with the lamps, and the snuffers, which were also of gold,

50and the doors with the nails, and the cups, and the dishes, and the censers, which were of gold and embossed, and the leaves of the doors of the inner house—the Holy of Holies, and the doors of the temple which were overlaid with gold.

51And when all the work was finished which Solomon made for the house of the Lord, then Solomon brought the dedications of his father David, and his own dedications, the silver and the gold, and the utensils, and deposited them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.

2He built it with timber from the forest of Lebanon. The length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits. It had three rows of cedar pillars, and the shoulders of the pillars were of cedar,

3and he vaulted the house above on the sides of the pillars. The number of pillars were forty, and five the row.

4And there were three galleries, story above story thrice.

5And all the doors and windows, with the spaces between, were squares arched, windows and doors being over one another in three ranges.

6And the porch of the pillars which was fifty cubits in length, and fifty cubits in breadth, was joined to another porch of the same dimensions in front of them, and the thickness of the pillars in front of it was for the porch.

7And the porch of thrones, where he was to administer justice, was the porch of judgment.

8And both were appurtenant to the house in which he was to dwell. They had one court communicating with both.

10the foundation of the court being laid with large costly stones—with stones of ten cubits, and those of eight cubits;

11and above with unhewn costly stones, of the same dimensions, and cedar beams;

12for the great court round about was enclosed with three rows of unpolished stones, and one row of cedar. Thus Solomon finished the whole house.