He builtalso the house of the forest of Lebanon; the lengththereof was an hundredcubits, and the breadththereoffiftycubits, and the heightthereofthirtycubits, uponfourrows of cedarpillars, withcedarbeamsupon the pillars.
And he made a porch of pillars; the lengththereof was fiftycubits, and the breadththereofthirtycubits: and the porch was beforethem: and the otherpillars and the thickbeamwerebeforethem.
Then he made a porch for the thronewhere he mightjudge, even the porch of judgment: and it was coveredwithcedarfrom one side of the floor to the other.
And his housewhere he dwelt had anothercourtwithin the porch, which was of the likework. Solomonmadealso an house for Pharaoh’sdaughter, whom he had taken to wife, likeuntothisporch.
All thesewere of costlystones, according to the measures of hewedstones, sawedwithsaws, within and without, evenfrom the foundationunto the coping, and so on the outsidetoward the greatcourt.
And the greatcourtroundabout was withthreerows of hewedstones, and a row of cedarbeams, both for the innercourt of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filledwithwisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to kingSolomon, and wrought all his work.
And he made two chapiters of moltenbrass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was fivecubits, and the height of the otherchapiter was fivecubits:
And nets of checkerwork, and wreaths of chainwork, for the chapiterswhichwereupon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the otherchapiter.
And he made the pillars, and two rowsroundaboutupon the one network, to cover the chapitersthatwereupon the top, withpomegranates: and so did he for the otherchapiter.
And the chapitersupon the two pillars had pomegranatesalsoabove, overagainst the bellywhich was by the network: and the pomegranateswere two hundred in rowsroundaboutupon the otherchapiter.
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the rightpillar, and called the namethereofJachin: and he set up the leftpillar, and called the namethereofBoaz.
And he made a molten sea, ten cubitsfrom the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was fivecubits: and a line of thirtycubits did compass it roundabout.
And under the brim of it roundabouttherewereknopscompassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea roundabout: the knopswerecast in two rows, when it was cast.
It stoodupontwelveoxen, threelookingtoward the north, and threelookingtoward the west, and threelookingtoward the south, and threelookingtoward the east: and the sea was set aboveuponthem, and all theirhinderpartswereinward.
And on the bordersthatwerebetween the ledgeswerelions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledgesthere was a baseabove: and beneath the lions and oxenwerecertainadditionsmade of thinwork.
And everybase had fourbrasenwheels, and plates of brass: and the fourcornersthereof had undersetters: under the laverwereundersettersmolten, at the side of everyaddition.
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouththereof was roundafter the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and alsoupon the mouth of it weregravingswiththeirborders, foursquare, not round.
And in the top of the base was there a roundcompass of half a cubithigh: and on the top of the base the ledgesthereof and the bordersthereofwere of the same.
For on the plates of the ledgesthereof, and on the bordersthereof, he gravedcherubims, lions, and palmtrees, according to the proportion of every one, and additionsroundabout.
And he put fivebases on the rightside of the house, and five on the leftside of the house: and he set the sea on the rightside of the houseeastwardoveragainst the south.
The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapitersthatwere on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiterswhichwereupon the top of the pillars;
And fourhundredpomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapitersthatwereupon the pillars;
And the candlesticks of puregold, five on the rightside, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of puregold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the innerhouse, the mostholyplace, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
So was ended all the workthatkingSolomonmade for the house of the LORD. And Solomonbrought in the thingswhichDavid his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.