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1 Kings 7

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1 It took Solomon another thirteen years to finish building his own palace complex.

2 He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

3 There were four rows of cedar columns supporting forty-five cedar beams, fifteen in each row, and then roofed with cedar.

4 Windows in groupings of three were set high in the walls on either side.

5 All the doors were rectangular and arranged symmetrically.

6 He built a colonnaded courtyard seventy-five feet long and forty-five wide. It had a roofed porch at the front with ample eaves.

7 He built a court room, the Hall of Justice, where he would decide judicial matters, and paneled it with cedar.

8 He built his personal residence behind the Hall on a similar plan. Solomon also built another one just like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married.

9 No expense was spared - everything here, inside and out, from foundation to roof was constructed using high-quality stone, accurately cut and shaped and polished.

10 The foundation stones were huge, ranging in size from twelve to fifteen feet, and of the very best quality.

11 The finest stone was used above the foundation, shaped to size and trimmed with cedar.

12 The courtyard was enclosed with a wall made of three layers of stone and topped with cedar timbers, just like the one in the porch of The Temple of God.

13 King Solomon sent to Tyre and asked Hiram (not the king; another Hiram) to come.

14 Hiram's mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was a Tyrian and a master worker in bronze. Hiram was a real artist - he could do anything with bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all the bronze work.

15 First he cast two pillars in bronze, each twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet in circumference.

16 He then cast two capitals in bronze to set on the pillars; each capital was seven and a half feet high

17 and flared at the top in the shape of a lily. Each capital was dressed with an elaborate filigree of seven braided chains and a double row of two hundred pomegranates, setting the pillars off magnificently.

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21 He set the pillars up in the entrance porch to The Temple; the pillar to the south he named Security (Jachin) and the pillar to the north Stability (Boaz).

22 The capitals were in the shape of lilies.

23 Hiram's next project was to make the Sea - an immense round basin of cast metal fifteen feet in diameter, seven and a half feet tall, and forty-five feet in circumference.

24 Just under the rim there were two bands of decorative gourds, ten gourds to each foot and a half. The gourds were cast in one piece with the Sea.

25 The Sea was set on twelve bulls, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; the bulls faced outward supporting the Sea on their hindquarters.

26 The Sea was three inches thick and flared at the rim like a cup, or like a lily. It held about 11,500 gallons.

27 Hiram also made ten washstands of bronze. Each was six feet square and four and a half feet tall.

28 They were made like this: Panels were fastened to the uprights.

29 Lions, bulls, and cherubim were represented on the panels and uprights. Beveled wreath-work bordered the lions and bulls above and below.

30 Each stand was mounted on four bronze wheels with bronze axles. The uprights were cast with decorative relief work.

31 Each stand held a basin on a circular engraved support a foot and a half deep set on a pedestal two and a quarter feet square. The washstand itself was square.

32 The axles were attached under the stand and the wheels fixed to them. The wheels were twenty-seven inches in diameter;

33 they were designed like chariot wheels. Everything - axles, rims, spokes, and hubs - was of cast metal.

34 There was a handle at the four corners of each washstand, the handles cast in one piece with the stand.

35 At the top of the washstand there was a ring about nine inches deep. The uprights and handles were cast with the stand.

36 Everything and every available surface was engraved with cherubim, lions, and palm trees, bordered by arabesques.

37 The washstands were identical, all cast in the same mold.

38 He also made ten bronze washbasins, each six feet in diameter with a capacity of 230 gallons, one basin for each of the ten washstands.

39 He arranged five stands on the south side of The Temple and five on the north. The Sea was placed at the southeast corner of The Temple.

40 Hiram then fashioned the various utensils: buckets and shovels and bowls. Hiram completed all the work he set out to do for King Solomon on The Temple of God:

41 two pillars; two capitals on top of the pillars; two decorative filigrees for the capitals;

42 four hundred pomegranates for the two filigrees (a double row of pomegranates for each filigree);

43 ten washstands each with its washbasin; one Sea;

44 twelve bulls under the Sea;

45 miscellaneous buckets, shovels, and bowls.

46 He cast them in clay in a foundry on the Jordan plain between Succoth and Zarethan.

47 These artifacts were never weighed - there were far too many! Nobody has any idea how much bronze was used.

48 Solomon was also responsible for all the furniture and accessories in The Temple of God: the gold Altar; the gold Table that held the Bread of the Presence;

49 the pure gold candelabras, five to the right and five to the left in front of the Inner Sanctuary; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;

50 the pure gold dishes, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; the gold sockets for the doors of the Inner Sanctuary, the Holy of Holies, used also for the doors of the Main Sanctuary.

51 That completed all the work King Solomon did on The Temple of God. He then brought in the items consecrated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the artifacts. He placed them all in the treasury of God's Temple.

New Century Version NCV

1 King Solomon also built a palace for himself; it took him thirteen years to finish it.

2 Built of cedars from the Forest of Lebanon, it was one hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. It had four rows of cedar columns which supported the cedar beams.

3 There were forty-five beams on the roof, with fifteen beams in each row, and the ceiling was covered with cedar above the beams.

4 Windows were placed in three rows facing each other.

5 All the doors were square, and the three doors at each end faced each other.

6 Solomon also built the porch that had pillars. This porch was seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide. Along the front of the porch was a roof supported by pillars.

7 Solomon also built a throne room where he judged people, called the Hall of Justice. This room was covered with cedar from the floor to the ceiling.

8 The palace where Solomon lived was built like the Hall of Justice, and it was behind this hall. Solomon also built the same kind of palace for his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt.

9 All these buildings were made with blocks of fine stone. First they were carefully cut. Then they were trimmed with a saw in the front and back. These fine stones went from the foundations of the buildings to the top of the walls. Even the courtyard was made with blocks of stone.

10 The foundations were made with large blocks of fine stone, some as long as fifteen feet. Others were twelve feet long.

11 On top of these foundation stones were other blocks of fine stone and cedar beams.

12 The palace courtyard, the courtyard inside the Temple, and the porch of the Temple were surrounded by walls. All of these walls had three rows of stone blocks and one row of cedar beams.

13 King Solomon sent to Tyre and had Huram brought to him.

14 Huram's mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was from Tyre and had been skilled in making things from bronze. Huram was also very skilled and experienced in bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and did all the bronze work.

15 He made two bronze pillars, each one twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet around.

16 He also made two bronze capitals that were seven and one-half feet tall, and he put them on top of the pillars.

17 Then he made a net of seven chains for each capital, which covered the capitals on top of the two pillars.

18 He made two rows of bronze pomegranates to go on the nets. These covered the capitals at the top of the pillars.

19 The capitals on top of the pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies, and they were six feet tall.

20 The capitals were on top of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped section and next to the nets. At that place there were two hundred pomegranates in rows all around the capitals.

21 Huram put these two bronze pillars at the porch of the Temple. He named the south pillar He Establishes and the north pillar In Him Is Strength.

22 The capitals on top of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work on the pillars was finished.

23 Then Huram made from bronze a large round bowl, which was called the Sea. It was forty-five feet around, fifteen feet across, and seven and one-half feet deep.

24 Around the outer edge of the bowl was a rim. Under this rim were two rows of bronze plants which surrounded the bowl. There were ten plants every eighteen inches, and these plants were made in one piece with the bowl.

25 The bowl rested on the backs of twelve bronze bulls that faced outward from the center of the bowl. Three bulls faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east.

26 The sides of the bowl were four inches thick, and it held about eleven thousand gallons. The rim of the bowl was like the rim of a cup or like a lily blossom.

27 Then Huram made ten bronze stands, each one six feet long, six feet wide, and four and one-half feet high.

28 The stands were made from square sides, which were put on frames.

29 On the sides were bronze lions, bulls, and creatures with wings. On the frames above and below the lions and bulls were designs of flowers hammered into the bronze.

30 Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. At the corners there were bronze supports for a large bowl, and the supports had designs of flowers.

31 There was a frame on top of the bowls, eighteen inches high above the bowls. The opening of the bowl was round, twenty-seven inches deep. Designs were carved into the bronze on the frame, which was square, not round.

32 The four wheels, placed under the frame, were twenty-seven inches high. The axles between the wheels were made as one piece with the stand.

33 The wheels were like a chariot's wheels. Everything on the wheels -- the axles, rims, spokes, and hubs -- were made of bronze.

34 The four supports were on the four corners of each stand. They were made as one piece with the stand.

35 A strip of bronze around the top of each stand was nine inches deep. It was also made as one piece with the stand.

36 The sides of the stand and the frames were covered with carvings of creatures with wings, as well as lions, palm trees, and flowers.

37 This is the way Huram made the ten stands. The bronze for each stand was melted and poured into a mold, so all the stands were the same size and shape.

38 Huram also made ten bronze bowls, one bowl for each of the ten stands. Each bowl was six feet across and could hold about two hundred thirty gallons.

39 Huram put five stands on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side. He put the large bowl in the southeast corner of the Temple.

40 Huram also made bowls, shovels, and small bowls.

41 two pillars; two large bowls for the capitals on top of the pillars; two nets to cover the two large bowls for the capitals on top of the pillars;

42 four hundred pomegranates for the two nets (there were two rows of pomegranates for each net covering the bowls for the capitals on top of the pillars);

43 ten stands with a bowl on each stand;

44 the large bowl with twelve bulls under it;

45 the pots, shovels, small bowls, and all the utensils for the Temple of the Lord. Huram made everything King Solomon wanted from polished bronze.

46 The king had these things poured into clay molds that were made in the plain of the Jordan River between Succoth and Zarethan.

47 Solomon never weighed the bronze used to make these things, because there was too much to weigh. So the total weight of all the bronze was never known.

48 Solomon also made all the items for the Temple of the Lord: the golden altar; the golden table which held the bread that shows God's people are in his presence;

49 the lampstands of pure gold (five on the right side and five on the left side in front of the Most Holy Place); the flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold;

50 the pure gold bowls, wick trimmers, small bowls, pans, and dishes used to carry coals; the gold hinges for the doors of the Most Holy Place and the main room of the Temple.

51 Finally the work King Solomon did for the Temple of the Lord was finished. Solomon brought in everything his father David had set apart for the Temple -- silver, gold, and other articles. He put everything in the treasuries of the Temple of the Lord.