| Chapter
7 |
| 1 | But
Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his
house. |
| 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. |
| 3 | And it was covered with cedar
above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. |
| 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. |
| 6 | 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. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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. |
|
11 | 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. |
| 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: |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 22 | And upon the top of the
pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished. |
| 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. |
| 25 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 28 | And the work of
the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between
the ledges: |
| 29 | 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. |
|
30 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 40 | 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: |
| 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; |
|
42 | 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; |
| 45 |
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. |
| 46 | In the plain of Jordan
did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan. |
| 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, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
