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1 Kings 7

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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.

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 Shlomo built a palace for himself, taking thirteen years to finish it.

2 For he built the House of the L'vanon Forest 175 feet long, eighty-seven-and-a-half feet wide and fifty-two-and-a-half feet high, on four rows of cedar posts, with cedar beams on the posts.

3 It had a roof made of cedar and supported by beams lying on forty-five posts, fifteen in a row.

4 There were three rows of window openings, placed so that the windows on facing walls were opposite each other at all three levels.

5 All the doors and doorways were rectangular and opposite each other at all three levels.

6 He made the columned hall eighty-seven-and-a-half feet long and fifty-two-and-a-half feet wide, with a columned, corniced porch in front of it.

7 He made the Hall of the Throne his place for dispensing justice, that is, the Hall of Judgment; it was covered with cedar from floor to ceiling.

8 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.

9 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.

10 The foundation was of expensive stone blocks, very large ones - stones fourteen to eighteen feet long.

11 Above these were costly stones, cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

12 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.

13 King Shlomo sent for Hiram and brought him from Tzor.

14 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.

15 He made the two bronze columns, each one thirty-one-and-a-half feet high and twenty-one feet in circumference.

16 He made two capitals of melted bronze to set on the tops of the columns; each capital was eight-and-three-quarters feet high;

17 he also made checker-work nets and chained wreaths, seven for the top of each capital.

18 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.

19 The capitals on the columns in the hall had shapes like lilies and were seven feet high.

20 As for the capitals on the two columns, there were 200 pomegranates in rows around each capital near the molding by the netting.

21 He erected the columns in the hall of the temple; on erecting the right column he gave it the name "Yakhin," and on erecting the left column he named it "Bo'az."

22 On the tops of the columns were shapes like lilies; thus the work of the columns was finished.

23 He made the cast metal "Sea" circular, seventeen-and-a-half feet from rim to rim, eight-and-three quarter feet high and fifty-two-and-a-half feet in circumference.

24 Under its rim, three hundred gourds encircled it in two rows; they were cast when the Sea was cast.

25 It rested on twelve oxen, three looking north, three looking west, three looking south and three looking east, all with their hindquarters toward the center. The Sea was set on top of them.

26 It was a handbreadth thick, its rim was made like the rim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; and its capacity was 11,000 gallons.

27 He made ten bronze trolleys, each one seven feet long, seven feet wide, and five-and-a-quarter feet high.

28 They were designed with panels that were set between the corner-posts,

29 and on the panels between the corner-posts were lions, oxen and k'ruvim. The corner-posts above were similarly designed. Below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hammered work.

30 Every trolley had four bronze wheels and bronze axles, and its four legs each had cast supports which were under the basin, with wreaths next to each.

31 The opening of the stand into which the basin was inserted was eighteen inches high; the stand was round, resembling a pedestal, and it was two-and-a-half feet in diameter. On the stand were carvings, and the outside was square, not round.

32 The four wheels were under the panels, and the axles for the wheels were attached to the trolleys; each wheel was two-and-a-half feet.

33 The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes and hubs were all cast metal.

34 There were four supports at the four corners of each trolley; the supports were attached to the trolley itself.

35 In the top of the trolley was a circular support ten-and-a-half inches high, and the trolley's corner-posts and panels were attached to its top.

36 On the sides of the panels and on its corners he carved k'ruvim, lions and palm trees, according to the amount of space each required, with wreaths surrounding.

37 According to this design he made the ten trolleys; all of them were cast from a single mold, so that they had the same size and shape.

38 He made ten bronze basins; each basin's capacity was 220 gallons and had a diameter of seven feet; there was a basin for each of the ten trolleys.

39 He arranged five of the trolleys on the right side of the house and five on the left side. The Sea he placed on the right side of the house, toward the southeast.

40 Hiram made the ash pots, shovels and sprinkling basins. With that, Hiram completed all the work he had done for King Shlomo in the house of ADONAI -

41 the two columns, the two moldings of the capitals on top of the columns, the two nettings covering the two moldings of the capitals atop the columns,

42 the 400 pomegranates for the two nettings, two rows of pomegranates for each netting, to cover the two moldings of the capitals atop the columns,

43 the ten trolleys, the ten basins on the trolleys,

44 the one Sea, the twelve oxen under the Sea,

45 the ash pots, the shovels and the sprinkling basins. All these articles that Hiram made for King Shlomo in the house of ADONAI were of burnished bronze.

46 The king cast them in the plain of the Yarden, in the clay ground between Sukkot and Tzartan.

47 Shlomo did not weigh any of these objects, because there were so many of them; thus the total weight of the bronze could not be determined.

48 Shlomo made all the objects that were inside the house of ADONAI: the gold altar; the table of gold on which the showbread was displayed;

49 the menorahs - five on the right and five on the left in front of the sanctuary - of pure gold; the flowers, lamps and tongs of gold;

50 the cups, snuffers, basins, incense pans and fire pans of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both those for the doors of the inner house, the Especially Holy Place, and those for the doors of the house, that is, of the temple.

51 Thus all the work that King Shlomo did in the house of ADONAI was finished. After this, Shlomo brought in the gifts which David his father had dedicated - the silver, the gold and the utensils - and put them in the treasuries of the house of ADONAI.