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9 All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, from the foundation to the coping, and from outside to the great court.
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All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and smoothed on their inner and outer faces.
10 The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits.
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The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits and some eight.
11 There were costly stones above, cut to measure, and cedarwood.
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Above were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
12 The great court had three courses of dressed stone to one layer of cedar beams all around; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord, and the vestibule of the house.
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The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the LORD with its portico.
13 Now King Solomon invited and received Hiram from Tyre.
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King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,
14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, whose father, a man of Tyre, had been an artisan in bronze; he was full of skill, intelligence, and knowledge in working bronze. He came to King Solomon, and did all his work.
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whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.
15 He cast two pillars of bronze. Eighteen cubits was the height of the one, and a cord of twelve cubits would encircle it; the second pillar was the same.
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He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
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.
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He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits high.
17 There were nets of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.
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A network of interwoven chains adorned the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital.
18 He made the columns with two rows around each latticework to cover the capitals that were above the pomegranates; he did the same with the other capital.
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He made pomegranates in two rows encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars. He did the same for each capital.
19 Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits high.
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The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubits high.
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