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* And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years , and he finished all his house . * For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon ; its length was a hundred cubits , and its width fifty cubits , and its height thirty cubits , on four rows of cedar pillars , with cedar beams on the pillars . * And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams , that were on the pillars ; fifteen in a row . * And there were beams in three rows , and window was opposite window in three ranks . * And all the doors and jambs were made square with beams : and window was opposite window in three ranks . * And he made the porch of pillars ; its length was fifty cubits , and its width thirty cubits ; and a porch before them ; and pillars and a threshold before them . * And he made the porch of the throne where he was to judge , even the porch of judgment : and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor . * And his house where he was to dwell , the other court inside the porch , was of like work . He also made a house for Pharaoh 's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife ), like this porch . * All these were of costly stones , even of cut stone , according to measure , sawed with saws , inside and outside , even from the foundation to the coping , and so on the outside to 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 costly stones , even cut stone , according to measure , and cedar-wood . * And the great court round about had three courses of cut stone , and a course of cedar beams ; like the inner court of the house of Yahweh , and the porch of the house . * And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre . * He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali , and his father was a man of Tyre , a worker in bronze ; and he was filled with the wisdom and the understanding and the knowledge to work all works in bronze . And he came to King Solomon , and wrought all his work . * For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze , eighteen cubits high apiece : and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about . * And he made two capitals of molten bronze , to set on the tops of the pillars : the height of the one capital was five cubits , and the height of the other capital was five cubits . * There were nets of checker-work , and wreaths of chain-work , for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars ; seven for the one capital , and seven for the other capital . * So he made the pillars ; and there were two rows round about on the one network , to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pomegranates : and so he did for the other capital . * And the capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work , four cubits . * And there were capitals above also on the two pillars , close by the belly which was beside the network : and the pomegranates were two hundred , in rows round about on the other 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 top of the pillars was lily-work : so the work of the pillars was finished . * And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim , round in a circle , and its height was five cubits ; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it round about . * And under the brim of it round about there were knops which circled it , for ten cubits , circling the sea round about : the knops were in two rows , cast when it was cast . * It stood on 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 on them above , and all their hinder parts were inward . * And it was a handbreadth thick : and its brim was wrought like the brim of a cup , like the flower of a lily : it held two thousand baths . * And he made the ten bases of bronze ; four cubits was the length of one base , and four cubits its width , and three cubits its height . * And the work of the bases was on this manner : they had panels ; and there were panels between the ledges ; * and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions , oxen , and cherubim ; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above ; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work . * And every base had four bronze wheels , and axles of bronze ; and the four feet of it had undersetters : beneath the basin the undersetters were molten , with wreaths at the side of each . * And the mouth of it inside the capital and above was a cubit : and its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal , a cubit and a half ; and also on the mouth of it were gravings , and their panels were foursquare , not round . * And the four wheels were underneath the panels ; and the axletrees 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 axletrees , and their felloes , and their spokes , and their naves , were all molten . * And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base : its undersetters were of the base itself . * And in the top of the base there was a round circle half a cubit high ; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were of the same . * And on the plates of its supports , and on its panels , he engraved cherubim , lions , and palm-trees , according to the space of each , with wreaths round about . * After this manner he made the ten bases : all of them had one casting , one measure , and one form . * And he made ten basins of bronze : one basin contained forty baths ; and every basin was four cubits ; and on every one of the ten bases one basin . * And he set 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 , toward the south . * And Hiram made the basins , and the shovels , and the basins . So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he wrought for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh : * the two pillars , and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars ; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars ; * and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks ; two rows of pomegranates for each network , to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars ; * and the ten bases , and the ten basins on the bases ; * and the one sea , and the twelve oxen under the sea ; * and the pots , and the shovels , and the basins : even all these vessels , which Hiram made for King Solomon , in the house of Yahweh , were of burnished bronze . * The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan , in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan . * And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed ], because they were exceedingly many : the weight of the bronze could not be found out . * And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh : the golden altar , and the table on which the showbread was , of gold ; * and the lampstands , five on the right side , and five on the left , before the oracle , of pure gold ; and the flowers , and the lamps , and the tongs , of gold ; * and the cups , and the snuffers , and the basins , and the spoons , and the firepans , of pure gold ; and the hinges , both for the doors of the inner house , the most holy place , and for the doors of the house , [to wit ], of the temple , of gold . * Thus all the work that King Solomon wrought in the house of Yahweh was finished . And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated , [even ] the silver , and the gold , and the vessels , and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh .

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