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Chapter 7 |
| 1 | But Solomon
was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
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| 2 | He 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. |
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| And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that
lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. |
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4 | And there were windows in
three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. |
| 5 | And all the
doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in
three ranks. |
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| And 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. |
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Then 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. |
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And 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. |
| 9 | All 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. |
| 10 | 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 measures of hewed
stones, and cedars. |
| 12 | And 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 the LORD, and for the porch of the house. |
| 13 | And king
Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. |
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14 | He 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. |
| 15 | For
he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of
twelve cubits did compass either of them about. |
| 16 | And 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: |
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17 | And 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. |
| 18 | And 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. |
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19 | And the chapiters that were upon the top of the
pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits. |
| 20 | And 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. |
| 21 | And he set up the pillars in
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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23 | And 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. |
| 24 | And
under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a
cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, 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 above upon them, and all
their hinder parts were inward. |
| 26 | And it was an hand breadth
thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of
lilies: it contained two thousand baths. |
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27 | And 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. |
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28 | And the work of the
bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the
ledges: |
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| And on the borders that were between the ledges were
lions, oxen, and cherubim: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and
beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. |
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And every base had four brazen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four
corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at
the side of every addition. |
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31 | And 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. |
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32 | And 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. |
| 33 | And 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. |
| 34 | And
there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the
undersetters were of the very base itself. |
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35 | 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 ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same. |
| 36 | For
on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved
cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and
additions round about. |
| 37 | After this manner he made the ten bases: all
of them had one casting, one measure, and one size. |
| 38 | Then made he
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. |
| 39 | And he put
five bases 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 over against
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 made king Solomon
for the house of the LORD: |
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41 | The two pillars, and the two bowls of
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; |
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| And 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; |
| 43 | And the ten bases, and ten
lavers on the bases; |
| 44 | And one sea, and twelve oxen under the
sea; |
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And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these
vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of
bright brass. |
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46 | In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in
the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan. |
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47 | And Solomon left all
the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight
of the brass found out. |
| 48 | And Solomon made all the vessels that
pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold,
whereupon the shewbread was, |
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49 | And the candlesticks of pure gold,
five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the
flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold, |
| 50 | And the
bowls, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censers of
pure gold; 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.
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| 51 | So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the
LORD. And Solomon brought in 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 the LORD. |
