1 Kings 7

And Solomon built his house 13 years, and he finished all of his house.

And he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. 100 cubits {was} its length and 50 cubits {was} its width and 30 cubits {was} its height, upon four rows of pillars of cedar and beams of cedar upon the pillars. \*

And it was covered with cedar from above, upon the beams that were on 45 pillars, 15 the row.

And the {window} frames {were} three rows, and window {was} opposite window {in} three tiers.

And all of the entrances and doorposts {were} square {in} frame, and window {was} directly opposite to window {in} three tiers. \*

And he made the Porch of Pillars. 50 cubits {was} its length and 30 cubits {was} its width. And a porch {was} on their face, and pillars and a roof {were} on their face. \*

And he made the Porch of the Throne where he would judge there, the Porch of Judgment. And it was covered with cedar from the floor to the floor. \*

And his house where he would dwell there, {in} the other courtyard from the house of the porch, was like this work. And he made a house for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken, like this porch. \*

All of these {were} valuable stones, according to the measurements of hewn stone, sawn with the saw on the inside and on the outside, and from the foundation to the eaves and from outside to the great courtyard.

And it was founded with valuable stones, great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. \*

And from above {were} valuable stones, according to the measurements of hewn stone, and cedar.

And a great courtyard {was} all around, three rows {of} hewn stone and a row of beams of cedar, and for the inner courtyard of the house of God and for the porch of the house. \*

And King Solomon sent and took Hiram from Tyre.

He {was} the son of a woman, a widow, from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a crafter of bronze. And he was filled with wisdom and understanding and knowledge to do all work in bronze. And he came to King Solomon, and he did all of his work. \*

And he fashioned two bronze pillars. 18 cubits {was} the height of the one pillar, and a cord of 12 cubits surrounded the second pillar.

And he made two capitals to put on the heads of the pillars, casting of bronze. Five cubits {was} the height of one capital, and five cubits {was} the height of the second capital.

Networks, a work of netting, strands, a work of chains, {were} to the capitals that {were} on the head of the pillars. Seven were to one capital, and seven were to the second capital. \*

And he made pillars, and two rows all around on one network, to cover the capitals that were on the head of the pomegranates, and thus he did for the second capital.

And the capitals that {were} on the head of the pillars {were} the work of a lily, on the porch, four cubits. \*

And the capitals on the two pillars also from above, from near the belly that was on the other side of the network, and the pomegranates {were} 200, {in} rows all around on the second capital.

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 its name Boaz.

And on the head of the pillars {was} the work of a lily. And the work of the pillars was finished. \*

And he made a cast sea, ten by the cubit from its lip to its lip, circular around. And five by the cubit was its height, and a cord of thirty by the cubit surrounded it around.

And gourds {were} from underneath to its lip all around, surrounding it, ten in a cubit, encircling the sea all around {in} two rows. The gourds were cast when it was cast. \*

{It was} standing upon 12 cattle, three facing northward and three facing westward and three facing southward and three facing eastward, and the sea {was} upon them from above. And all of their hindquarters {were} inward.

And its thickness {was} a handbreadth, and its lip {was} like the work of the lip of a cup, the blossom of a lily. It contained 2,000 baths. \*

And he made ten bronze stands. Four by the cubit {was} the length of one stand, and four by the cubit {was} its width, and three by the cubit {was} its height.

And this {was} the work of the stand. Panels {were} to them, and the panels {were} between the frames.

And on the panels that {were} between the frames {were} lions, cattle, and cherubs. And on the frames {was} a pedestal from above, and from below to the lions and to the cattle {were} wreaths, the work of descent. \*

And four wheels of bronze {were} to one stand, and axles of bronze. And its four corners, shoulders {were} to them, from below to the basin. The shoulders were cast on the side of each {with} wreaths.

And its mouth from the inside of the capital and upward {was} by a cubit. And its mouth {was} circular, the work of a pedestal, a cubit and half of a cubit, and also on its mouth {were} carvings. But their panels were square, not circular. \*

And the four of the wheels {were} beneath the panels, and the hands of the wheels {were} in the stand. And the height of one wheel {was} a cubit and half of a cubit.

And the work of the wheels {was} like the work of the wheel of a chariot. Their hands and their rims and their spokes and their hubs, the whole was cast. \*

And four shoulders {were} to the four corners of one stand, from the stand {were} its shoulders.

And on the head of the stand, half of a cubit {was} the height, circular all around. And on the head of the stand, its hands and its panels {were} from it. \*

And he engraved cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its hands and on its panels, according to the bare space of each, and wreaths all around.

Like this he made the ten stands. One casting, one size, one shape {was} to all of them. \*

And he made ten bronze basins. One basin contained 40 baths. One basin {was} four by the cubit. One basin {was} on one stand, for the ten stands.

And he put the stands, five on the shoulder of the house from the right and five on the shoulder of the house from its left. And he put the sea from the right shoulder of the house, eastward toward the south. \*

And Hiram made basins and shovels and bowls. And Hiram finished doing all of the work that he did for King Solomon {for} the house of God:

the two pillars, and the bowls of the capitals that {were} on the head of the two pillars, and the two networks for covering the two bowls of the capitals that {were} on the head of the pillars, \*

and the 400 pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the faces of the pillars,

and the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands, \*

and the one sea, and the 12 cattle under the sea,

and the pots and the shovels and the bowls. And all of these vessels that Hiram made for King Solomon {for} the house of God {were} polished bronze. \*

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay of the ground between Succoth and between Zarethan.

And Solomon let all of the vessels rest, from great, great abundance. The weight of the bronze was not sought out. \*

And Solomon made all of the vessels that {were} in the house of God: the altar of gold, and the table that on it {was} the bread of the face, gold,

and the five lampstands on the right and five on the left to the face of the inner sanctuary, pure gold, and the blossom and the lamps and the tongs, gold, \*

and the basins and the trimmers and the sprinkling bowls and the palms and the firepans, pure gold, and the sockets of the doors of the inner house, for the Holy of Holies, for the doors of the house, for the temple, gold. \*

And all of the work that King Solomon did {for} the house of God was complete. And Solomon brought in the holy things of David, his father. The silver and the gold and the vessels, he put in the storerooms of the house of God. \*