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* But Solomon built his own house in thirteen years , and he finished all his house . * He also built the house of the forest of Lebanon , which was one hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high , upon four rows of cedar pillars , with cedar beams upon the pillars . * And [it was ] covered with cedar above upon the beams that [lay ] on forty-five pillars , fifteen [in ] a row . * And [there were ] windows [in ] three orders , one against another in three orders . * And all the doors and posts [were ] square , with some windows opposite the other windows in three orders . * And he made a porch of pillars , which was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide , and the porch [was ] before those others , with its corresponding pillars and thick beams . * Then he made a porch for the throne where he was to judge , [even ] the porch of judgment ; and [it was ] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other . * And his house where he dwelt [had ] another court within the porch , [which ] was of like work . Solomon also made a house for Pharaoh 's daughter , whom he had taken [to wife ], like unto this porch . * All these [works were of ] costly stones , cut and sawed with saws according to the measurements , within and without , even from the foundation unto the coping , and [so ] on the outside unto the great court . * And the foundation [was of ] costly stones , even great stones , stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits . * And above [were also ] costly stones , hewed according to their measurements , and work of cedar . * And the great court round about had three orders of hewed stones and an order of cedar beams , and [likewise ] the inner court of the house of the LORD and the porch of the house . * And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre , * who was a widow 's son of the tribe of Naphtali , and his father had been of Tyre . A worker in brass , full of wisdom and intelligence and knowledge in all work of brass . And he came to King Solomon and did all his work . * He made two pillars of brass , of eighteen cubits high apiece , and a line of twelve cubits did compass each of them about . * 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 . * [And ] nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the chapiters which [were to be placed ] upon the top of the pillars , seven for the one chapiter and seven for the other chapiter . * And when he had made the pillars , he also made two orders [of pomegranates ] round about upon the network to cover the chapiters that [were ] upon the heads [of the pillars ] with the pomegranates , and so did he for the other chapiter . * And the chapiters that [were ] upon the top of the pillars were in the form of lilies [like those seen ] in the porch , for four cubits . * And the chapiters upon the two pillars had two hundred pomegranates in two orders round about in each chapiter , on top of the belly of the chapiter , this belly being in front of the network . * And he stood up the pillars in the porch of the temple . And when he had set up the right pillar , he called the name of it Jachin ; and in standing up the left pillar , he called its name Boaz . * And upon the top of the pillars [was ] lily work , and so the work of the pillars was finished . * Likewise , he made a molten sea , ten cubits from the one brim to the other ; [it was ] perfectly round , and its height [was ] five cubits , and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about . * And under the brim of it round about [there were ] knops like gourds compassing it , ten in a cubit , compassing the sea round about in two orders , which were made 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 Negev and three looking toward the east ; and upon them the sea rested , and all their hinder parts [were ] inward . * And it [was ] a hand breadth thick , and its lip was made like the lip of a cup , with flowers of lilies ; it contained two thousand baths . * He also made ten bases of brass ; four cubits [was ] the length of each base and four cubits the width and three cubits the height . * And the work of the bases was like this : they had borders , and the borders [were ] between mouldings ; * and upon the borders that [were ] between the mouldings [were ] lions , oxen , and cherubim ; and upon the mouldings of the base , above and beneath the lions and oxen [were ] certain additions made of bevelled work . * And each base had four brasen wheels and cardinals of brass , and in its four corners it had shoulderpieces , which were molten at the side of each addition , to be under the laver . * Its mouth entered into the chapiter ([in the joint that came out of the base ]) one cubit above , and its mouth was rounded like the workmanship ([of the same joint ]) in the base , of a cubit and a half . There were also engravings upon the mouth of it with their borders , which were square , not round . * And under the borders [were ] the four wheels , and the axletrees of the wheels [came forth ] from the same base . The height of each wheel [was ] one and a half cubits . * And the workmanship of the wheels [was ] like the workmanship of a chariot wheel , their axletrees and their rims and their spokes and their hubs [were ] all molten . * Likewise , the four shoulderpieces to the four corners of each base , [and ] the shoulderpieces [were ] of the very base itself . * And in the top of the base [there was ] a rounded compass of half a cubit high and on the top of the base , its mouldings and borders [which were ] part of it . * For on the tables of the mouldings and on the borders thereof , he made cherubim , lions , and palm trees , in front of the additions of each one round about . * After this [manner ] he made ten bases cast in the same manner , of the same size and of the same shape . * Then he also made ten lavers of brass ; each laver contained forty baths , [and ] each laver measured four cubits ; [and he set ] a laver upon each one of the ten bases . * 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 to the east towards the Negev . * Hiram made the lavers and the shovels and the basins likewise . So Hiram finished all the work that he made King Solomon for the house of the LORD : * [That is ], 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 head of the pillars , * and four hundred pomegranates for the two networks , [even ] two orders of pomegranates for each network , to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that [were ] upon the heads of the pillars , * and the ten bases and ten lavers upon the bases , * and one sea and twelve oxen under the sea , * and the pots and the shovels and the basins and all the [other ] vessels , which Hiram made to King Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass . * And the king caused them all to be cast in the plain of the Jordan , in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan . * And Solomon did not inquire the weight of the brass of all the vessels because they were exceeding many . * And Solomon made all the vessels that [pertained ] unto the house of the LORD : an altar of gold , and a table upon which the showbread [was ], also of gold , * and the candlesticks of pure gold , five on the right hand , and five on the left , in front of the oracle , with the flowers and the lamps and the tongs [of ] gold , * likewise the bowls and the snuffers and the basins and the spoons and the censers [of ] pure gold , also the hinges of gold , [both ] for the doors of the inner house , the holy of holies , [and ] for the doors of the house of the temple . * So all the work that King Solomon made for the house of the LORD was complete . And Solomon brought in the things which David , his father , had dedicated , [even ] the silver and the gold and the vessels , and he kept it [all ] in the treasury of the house of the LORD .:

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