1⁸²And king Solomon sent, and took Chiram out of Tyre,

2the 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.

3And 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 ⁸³flutings were four fingers wide, and thus was the other pillar formed.

4And he made two molten chapiters to ⁸⁴put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits was the height of one chapiter, and five cubits was the height of the other chapiter.

5And he made two ⁸⁵ornaments of net-work to cover the ⁸⁶chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter.

6And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, ⁸⁷formed with net-work, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed the ornaments for the second chapiter.

7And 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.

8And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits,

9and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition equal to the chamber in width.

10And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was ⁸⁸completely circular round about: its height was five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits.

11And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;

12and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span.

13And 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 ⁸⁹inward, and the sea was above upon them.

14And 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.

15And this work of the bases was ⁹⁰formed with a border to them, and there was a border between the ledges.

16And upon their borders between the projections 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.

17And there were four brazen wheels to one base; and there were brazen bases, and their four sides answering to them, side ⁹¹pieces under the bases.

18And there were ⁹²axles in the wheels ⁹³under the base. And the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half.

19And the work of the wheels was as the work of chariot wheels: their ⁹⁴axles, and their felloes, and the rest of their work, were all molten.

20The four side-pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders were formed of the base.

21And 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 ⁹⁵was open at the top of its spaces.

22And its borders were cherubs, and lions, and palm-trees, upright, each was joined in front and within and round about.

23According to the same form he made all the ten bases, even one order and one measure to all.

24And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty ⁹⁶baths, and measuring four cubits, each laver placed on a several base throughout the ten bases.

25And 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 ⁹⁷on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.

26And 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:

27two pillars and the wreathen works of the pillars on the heads of the two pillars; and the two ⁹⁸net-works to cover both the wreathen works of the flutings that were upon the pillars.

28The 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.

29And the ten bases, and the ten lavers upon the bases.

30And one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea.

31And 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.

32There was no ⁹⁹reckoning of the brass of which he made all these works, from the very great abundance, there was no end of the ¹⁰⁰weight of the brass.

33In the country round about Jordan did he cast them, in the ¹⁰¹clay land between Socchoth and Sira.

34And king Solomon took the furniture which Chiram made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the golden table of shewbread.

35And he put the five candlesticks on the left, and five on the right in front of the oracle, being of ¹⁰²pure gold, and the lamp-stands, and the lamps, and the ¹⁰³snuffers of gold.

36And there were made the ¹⁰⁴porches, and the nails, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the golden censers, ¹⁰⁵of 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.

37So 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 ¹⁰⁶put the silver, and the gold, and the furniture, into the treasures of the house of the Lord.

38And Solomon built a house for himself in thirteen years.

39And he built the house with the ¹⁰⁷wood of Libanus; its length was a hundred cubits, and its breadth was fifty cubits, and its height was of thirty cubits, and it was made ¹⁰⁸with three rows of cedar pillars, and the pillars had ¹⁰⁹side-pieces of cedar.

40And he ¹¹⁰formed the house with chambers above on the sides of the pillars, and the number of the pillars was each row forty and five,

41and there were three chambers, and space against space in three rows.

42And all the doors and spaces formed like chambers were square, and from door to door was a correspondence in three rows.

43And he made the ¹¹¹porch of the pillars, they were fifty cubits long and fifty broad, the porch joining them in front; and the other pillars and the thick beam were in front of the house by the porches.

44And there was the Porch of seats where he would judge, the porch of judgment.

45And their house where he ¹¹²would dwell, had one court communicating with these according to this work; and he built the house for the daughter of Pharao whom Solomon had taken, according to this porch.

46All these were of costly stones, sculptured at intervals within even from the foundation even to the ¹¹³top, and outward to the great court,

47founded with large costly stones, stones of ten cubits and eight cubits long.

48And above with costly stones, according to the measure of hewn stones, and with cedars.

49There were three rows of hewn stones round about the great hall, and a row of sculptured cedar:

50and Solomon finished all his house.