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* And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre . * 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 full of wisdom and understanding and knowledge , to do all kinds of works in brass . And he came to king Solomon , and made all his work . * And he formed the two pillars of brass ; the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits , and a line of twelve cubits encompassed the second pillar . * And he made two capitals of molten brass , to set upon the tops of the pillars ; the height of the one capital was five cubits , and the height of the other capital was five cubits ; * [and ] nets of checker-work , wreaths of chain-work , for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars ; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital . * And he made pomegranates , namely two rows round about upon the one network , to cover the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars ; and so he did for the other capital . * And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily-work [as ] in the porch , four cubits . * And the capitals upon the two pillars , above also , close to the enlargement which was behind the network , had two hundred pomegranates in rows round about , [also ] on the other capital . * And he set up the pillars for 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 upon the top of the pillars was lily-work ; and the work of the pillars was finished . * And he made the sea , molten , ten cubits from brim to brim , round all about ; and its height was five cubits ; and a line of thirty cubits encompassed it round about . * And under the brim of it round about there were colocynths , encompassing it , ten in a cubit enclosing the sea round about ; two rows of colocynths , cast when it was cast . * 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 above upon them , and all their hinder parts were inward . * And its thickness was a hand-breadth , and its brim was like the work of the brim of a cup , with lily-blossoms ; it held two thousand baths . * And he made ten bases of brass : four cubits was the length of one base , and the breadth four cubits , and the height three cubits . * And the work of the bases was this : they had panels , and the panels were between the fillets . * And on the panels that were between the fillets were lions , oxen and cherubim ; and over the fillets there was a base above ; and beneath the lions and oxen were garlands of festoon-work . * And every base had four wheels of brass , and axles of brass ; and on its four corners were shoulder-pieces : under the laver were shoulder-pieces molten , behind every garland . * And the mouth of it within the crown and above was a cubit ; and its mouth was rounded , [as ] the work of the base , a cubit and a half ; and also upon its mouth was sculpture ; but their panels were square , not round . * And the four wheels were under the panels ; and the supports of the wheels were in the base ; and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit . * And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel : their supports , and their rims , and their spokes and their naves were all molten . * And there were four shoulder-pieces to the four corners of one base ; of the base itself were its shoulder-pieces . * And in the top of the base there was a circular elevation of half a cubit round about ; and on the top of the base its stays and its panels were of the same . * And he engraved on the plates of its stays and on its panels cherubim , lions and palm-trees , according to the space upon each ; and garlands were round about . * After this [manner ] he made the ten bases : all of them had one casting , one measure , one form . * And he made ten lavers of brass : one laver contained forty baths ; every laver was four cubits ; upon every one of the ten bases one laver . * And he put the bases , five 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 . * And Hiram made the lavers , and the shovels , and the bowls . So Hiram ended doing all the work that he made for king Solomon [for ] the house of Jehovah : * two pillars , and the globes of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars , two ; and the two networks , to cover the two globes of the capitals which were on the top of the pillars ; * and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks , two rows of pomegranates for one network , to cover the two globes of the capitals which were upon the pillars ; * and the ten bases , and the ten lavers on the bases ; * and one sea , and the twelve oxen under the sea ; * and the pots , and the shovels , and the bowls . And all these things , which Hiram made king Solomon for the house of Jehovah , were of bright brass . * In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them , in the clay-ground between Succoth and Zaretan . * And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed ] from their exceeding number ; the weight of the brass was not ascertained . * And Solomon made all the vessels that were [in ] the house of Jehovah : the golden altar ; and the table of gold , whereon was the shewbread ; * and the candlesticks of pure gold , five on the right , and five on the left , before the oracle ; and the flowers , and the lamps , and the tongs of gold , * and the basons , and the knives , and the bowls , and the cups , and the censers of pure gold ; and the hinges of gold , for the folding-doors of the inner house , the most holy place , [and ] for the doors of the house , of the temple . * And all the work was finished that king Solomon made for the house of Jehovah . And Solomon brought in the things that David his father had dedicated ; the silver and the gold and the vessels he put among the treasures of the house of Jehovah .

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