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Above them were high-quality stones cut to measure, as well as cedar.
12
The surrounding great courtyard had three rows of cut stones and a row of trimmed cedar just like the inner courtyard of the LORD's temple and its porch.
Solomon’s temple equipment
13 Then King Solomon sent a message and brought Hiram from Tyre.
14
Hiram's mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was a Tyrian skilled in bronze work. He was amazingly skillful in the techniques and knowledge for doing all kinds of work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
15
He cast two bronze pillars. Each one was twenty-seven feet high and required a cord of eighteen feet to reach around it.
16
He made two capitals of cast bronze for the tops of the columns. They were each seven and a half feet high.
17
He made an intricate network of chains for the capitals on top of the columns, seven for each capital.
18
He made the pillars and two rows of pomegranates for each network to adorn each of the capitals.
19
The capitals on top of the columns in the porch were made like lilies, each six feet high.
20
Above the round-shaped part and next to the network were two hundred pomegranates. These were placed in rows around both of the capitals on top of the columns.
21
He set up the columns at the temple's porch. He named the south column Jachin. The north column he named Boaz.