1 Kings 7:12-22 (New International Version)
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The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses1 of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the LORD with its portico.
The Temple's Furnishings
7:23-26pp -- 2Ch 4:2-5 7:38-51pp -- 2Ch 4:6,10-5:1
13 King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,a2 14 whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was a man of Tyre and a craftsman in bronze. Huram was highly skilled3 and experienced in all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all4 the work assigned to him. 15 He cast two bronze pillars,5 each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits around,b by line. 16 He also made two capitals6 of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubitsc high. 17 A network of interwoven chains festooned the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital. 18 He made pomegranates in two rowsd encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars.e He did the same for each capital. 19 The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubitsf high. 20 On the capitals of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped part next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates7 in rows all around. 21 He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jaking and the one to the north Boaz.h8 22 The capitals on top were in the shape of lilies. And so the work on the pillars9 was completed.Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online)
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