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His own living quarters, in the other courtyard, set back from the Hall, were similarly designed. He also made a house like this Hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Shlomo had taken as his wife.
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All these buildings were made of expensive stone blocks, cut to measure and finished by saws on the inner surfaces as well as the outer ones. These stones were used from the foundation to the eaves and outward from the buildings all the way to the Great Courtyard.
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The foundation was of expensive stone blocks, very large ones - stones fourteen to eighteen feet long.
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Above these were costly stones, cut to measure, and cedar-wood.
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The surrounding Great Courtyard had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams like the inner courtyard of the house of ADONAI and the courtyard by the hall of the house.
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King Shlomo sent for Hiram and brought him from Tzor.
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He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naftali, but his father was from Tzor, a bronze-worker filled with wisdom, understanding and skill for all kinds of bronze craftsmanship. He came to King Shlomo and did all his bronzework.
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He made the two bronze columns, each one thirty-one-and-a-half feet high and twenty-one feet in circumference.
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He made two capitals of melted bronze to set on the tops of the columns; each capital was eight-and-three-quarters feet high;
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he also made checker-work nets and chained wreaths, seven for the top of each capital.
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When he made the columns, he made two rows of pomegranates to put at the top of each column around the netting covering its capital.