bes - 1Kings:7:13-51

bes@1Kings:7:13 @ And king Solomon sent, and took Chiram out of Tyre,

bes@1Kings:7:14 @ the son of a widow woman; and he was of the tribe of Nephthalim, and his father was a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in art and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought all the works.

bes@1Kings:7:15 @ And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the house: eighteen cubits was the height of each pillar, and a circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of the pillar: the (note:)Or, embossed or hollow work(:note) flutings were four fingers wide, and thus was the other pillar formed.

bes@1Kings:7:16 @ And he made two molten chapiters to (note:)Gr. give(:note) put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits was the height of one chapiter, and five cubits was the height of the other chapiter.

bes@1Kings:7:17 @ And he made two (note:)Gr. nets(:note) ornaments of net-work to cover the Gr. chapiter chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter.

bes@1Kings:7:18 @ And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, (note:)q. d. netted(:note) formed with net-work, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed the ornaments for the second chapiter.

bes@1Kings:7:19 @ And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits,

bes@1Kings:7:20 @

bes@1Kings:7:21 @ And he set up the pillars of the porch of the temple: and he set up the one pillar, and called its name Jachum: and he set up the second pillar, and called its name Boloz.

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bes@1Kings:7:23 @ And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was (note:)Gr. round in a circle(:note) completely circular round about: its height was five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits.

bes@1Kings:7:24 @ And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;

bes@1Kings:7:25 @ And there were twelve oxen under the sea: 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 (note:)Lit. to or into the house(:note) inward, and the sea was above upon them.

bes@1Kings:7:26 @

bes@1Kings:7:27 @ And he made ten brazen bases: five cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and its height was six cubits.

bes@1Kings:7:28 @ And this work of the bases was (note:)Gr. shut up(:note) formed with a border the them, and there was a border between the ledges.

bes@1Kings:7:29 @ And upon their borders between the projection were lions, and oxen, and cherubs: and on the projections, even so above, and also below were the places of lions and oxen, hanging work.

bes@1Kings:7:30 @ And there were four brazen wheels to one base; and there were brazen bases, and their four sides answering to them, side (note:)Or, bearings, or shoulders; A. V. undersetters(:note) pieces under the bases.

bes@1Kings:7:31 @ And there were (note:)Gr. hands(:note) axles in the wheels Gr. in under the base.

bes@1Kings:7:32 @ And the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half.

bes@1Kings:7:33 @ And the work of the wheels was as the work of chariot wheels: their (note:)Gr. their hands and their backs(:note) axles, and their felloes, and the rest of their work, were all molten.

bes@1Kings:7:34 @ The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders were formed of the base.

bes@1Kings:7:35 @ And on the top of the base half a cubit was the size of it, there was a circle on the top of the base, and there was the top of its spaces and its borders: and it (note:)Gr. was opened(:note) was open at the top of its spaces.

bes@1Kings:7:36 @ And its borders were cherubs, and lions, and palm-trees, upright, each was joined in front and within and round about.

bes@1Kings:7:37 @ According to the same form he made all the ten bases, even one order and one measure to all.

bes@1Kings:7:38 @ And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty (note:)Gr. gallons(:note) baths, and measuring four cubits, each laver placed on a several base throughout the ten bases.

bes@1Kings:7:39 @ And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed (note:)Gr. on the shoulder-piece of the house on the right(:note) on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.

bes@1Kings:7:40 @ And Chiram made the caldrons, and the pans, and the bowls; and Chiram finished making all the works that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of the Lord:

bes@1Kings:7:41 @ two pillars and the wreathen works of the pillars on the heads of the two pillars; and the two (note:)Gr. nets(:note) net-works to cover both the wreathen works of the flutings that were upon the pillars.

bes@1Kings:7:42 @ The four hundred pomegranates for both the net-works, two rows of pomegranates for one net-work, to cover both the wreathen works of the bases belonging to both pillars.

bes@1Kings:7:43 @ And the ten bases, and the ten lavers upon the bases.

bes@1Kings:7:44 @ And one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea.

bes@1Kings:7:45 @ And the caldrons, and pans, and bowls, and all the furniture, which Chiram made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord: and there were eight and forty pillars of the house of the king and of the house of the Lord: all the works of the king which Chiram made were entirely of brass.

bes@1Kings:7:46 @ In the country round about Jordan did he cast them, in the (note:)Gr. thick part of the land(:note) clay land between Socchoth and Sira.

bes@1Kings:7:47 @ There was no (note:)Gr. weight(:note) reckoning of the brass of which he made all these works, from the very great abundance, there was no end of the Gr. weights weight of the brass.

bes@1Kings:7:48 @ And king Solomon took the furniture which Chiram made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the golden table of shewbread.

bes@1Kings:7:49 @ And he put the five candlesticks on the left, and five on the right in front of the oracle, being of (note:)Lit. golden, shut up(:note) pure gold, and the lamp-stands, and the lamps, and Perhaps small vessels with lips for pouring oil the snuffers of gold.

bes@1Kings:7:50 @ And there were made the (note:)Or, rather work about the door(:note) porches, and the nails, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the golden censers, Gr. shut up of pure gold: and the panels of the doors of the innermost part of the house, even the holy of holies, and the golden doors of the temple.

bes@1Kings:7:51 @ So the work of the house of the Lord which Solomon wrought was finished; and Solomon brought in the holy things of David his father, and all the holy things of Solomon; he (note:)Gr. gave(:note) put the silver, and the gold, and the furniture, into the treasures of the house of the Lord.