1 Kings 7:9-19

9 All these were of costly stones, of stone cut 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.

10 The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

11 And above * were costly stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar.

12 So ¹the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and ²the porch of the house.

Hiram's Work in the Temple

13 Now ³King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

14 ⁴He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and ⁵he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and ⁶performed all his work.

15 He fashioned ⁷the two pillars of bronze; ⁸eighteen * cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve * cubits measured the circumference of both.

16 He also 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.

17 There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork * for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital.

18 So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital.

19 The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.

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1 Kings 7:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 1 KINGS 7

This chapter gives an account of some buildings of Solomon for himself, 1Ki 7:1-12; and of other things for the use of the temple; of two pillars of brass, 1Ki 7:13-22; of the molten sea, 1Ki 7:23-26; and of ten bases, and ten layers on them, 1Ki 7:27-39; with other utensils and ornaments, 1Ki 7:40-51.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 8

1. 1 Kings 6:36
2. 1 Kings 7:6
3. 2 Chronicles 2:13, 14; 2 Chronicles 4:11
4. 2 Chronicles 2:14
5. Exodus 28:3; Exodus 31:3-5; Exodus 35:31; Exodus 36:1
6. 2 Chronicles 4:11-16
7. 2 Kings 25:17; 2 Chronicles 3:15; 2 Chronicles 4:12; Jeremiah 52:21
8. 1 Kings 7:41

Footnotes 2

[a]. Lit "went around the other pillar"
[b]. I.e. One cubit equals approx 18 in.