1 Kings 7 Then was Solomon thirteen years building a house for himself.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then was Solomon thirteen years building a house for himself. ² He built it with timber from the forest of Libanus. The length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits. It had three rows of cedar pillars, and the shoulders of the pillars were of cedar, ³ and he vaulted the house above on the sides of the pillars. The number of pillars were forty, and five the row. ⁴ And there were three galleries, story above story thrice. ⁵ And all the doors and windows, with the spaces between, were squares arched, windows and doors being over one another in three ranges. ⁶ And the ailam of the pillars which was fifty cubits in length, and fifty cubits in breadth, was joined to another ailam of the same dimensions in front of them, and the thickness of the pillars in front of it was for the ailamins. ⁷ And the ailam of thrones, where he was to administer justice, was the ailam of judgment. ⁸ And both were appurtenant to the house in which he was to dwell. They had one court communicating with both. Of the same workmanship, and with such an ailam, he built a house for Pharao's daughter whom he had married. ⁹ All these were of costly stones engraved within from the base, and without towards the great court from the foundation to the copings, ¹⁰ the foundation of the court being laid with large costly stones; with stones of ten cubits, and those of eight cubits; ¹¹ and above with unhewn costly stones, of the same dimensions, and cedar beams; ¹² for the great court round about was enclosed with three rows of unpolished stones, and one row of cedar. Thus Solomon finished the whole house. ¹³ Now king Solomon had sent and brought from Tyre a widow's son named Chiram. ¹⁴ He was of the tribe of Nephthaleim, though his father was a Tyrian. He was a worker in brass, a complete artist, filled with understanding and knowledge to execute all kinds of brass work. So he was brought to king Solomon, and executed all his works. ¹⁵ He cast two pillars for the ailam [or porch] of the house: The height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and the circumference there of fourteen cubits, and the flutings four fingers. ¹⁶ And he cast two chapiters to be put on the tops of the pillars; the height of each chapiter was five cubits. ¹⁷ He made also two pieces of net work to cover the chapiters of the pillars; one piece of net work for each chapiter. ¹⁸ They were a pensile work, with two rows of brass pomegranates in the form of netting, a pensile work, row above row. ²¹ And he set up the two pillars in the ailam of the temple. And when he set up the one pillar he called its name Jachum; and when he set up the other pillar he called its name Boloz. ²² And on the capitals of the pillars there was a lilly work of four cubits, towards the ailam, and a projected ledge over the two pillars, and this ledge by its thickness was a covering above the sides. ²³ He made also the sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, uniformly round, all about. It was five cubits high and thirty three cubits in circumference. ²⁴ Under its brim, embossments surrounded it, ten to a cubit all around. And the brim of it was like the workmanship of the brim of a cup, with lilly buds. And its thickness was a hand breadth. ²⁵ And under the sea were twelve beeves, three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east, and all their hinder parts were inward, and the sea was above upon them. ²⁷ And he made ten mechonoths [cisterns] of brass, five cubits the length of one mechonoth, and four cubits the breadth, and six cubits the height. ²⁸ And the mechonoths had all the same kind of engraved borders, and there were engravings between the prominences; ²⁹ and on their engraved parts between the prominences were lions, and beeves, and cherubim; and on the embossments, above and below the lions and beeves, were fields in bass relief. ³⁰ And each mechonoth had four wheels of brass, and the naves were of brass, and at their four corners there were shoulders under the cisterns, ³¹ for the axles of the wheels to each mechonoth. ³² And the height of each wheel was a cubit and a half. ³³ And the workmanship of the wheels was like that of the wheels of a chariot; and their axles and their felloes and their spokes were all cast. ³⁴ As to the four shoulders at the four corners of each mechonoth, the shoulders were a part of the mechonoth itself. ³⁵ And on the top of the mechonoth there was a cylindrical border, of half a cubit broad, round about on the top of the mechonoth; and it was the beginning of its handles and its engravings; and there was a cock at the ends of its handles. ³⁶ And the sculptures thereon; the cherubim, and the lions, and the palm trees, were in relief, each being smooth on the inside all around. ³⁷ In the same manner he made all the ten mechonoths, they being all of the same form and measure. ³⁸ He made also ten large pots of brass, each pot containing forty baths, and measuring four cubits. A large pot for every one of the ten mechonoths. ³⁹ And he placed five mechonoths at the right corner of the house, and five at the left corner of the house, and the sea was at the right corner, southward, facing the east. ⁴⁰ Chiram made also the kettles and the cauldrons and the basons. Thus Chiram finished completely all these works which he made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord, ⁴¹ namely, the two pillars, and the wreathed works of the pillars on the chapiters of the two pillars, and the two pieces of net work to cover the wreaths of the coverings which were on the pillars ⁴² the four hundred pomegranates on the two pieces of net work, there being two rows of pomegranates to each piece of net work for covering the wreaths of the chapiters on the two pillars; ⁴³ and the ten mechonoths, with the ten large pots for the mechonoths; ⁴⁴ and the sea with the twelve beeves under the sea; ⁴⁵ and the kettles, and the cauldrons, and the bowls, and all the utensils which he made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord. Now the pillars for the house of the king, and for the house of the Lord, were in all forty eight. All these works of the king, Chiram made entirely of brass. ⁴⁶ These he cast on the bank of the Jordan, in the clay ground, between Sokkoth and Seira. ⁴⁷ There was no weighing the brass of which he made all these works. On account of the immense quantity there was no computation of the weight of the brass. ⁴⁸ And Solomon the king took the utensils which he made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the table of gold on which was to be laid the shew bread ⁴⁹ and the five candlesticks on the left, and five on their right in front of the dabir, which were of beaten gold, and the lamp-stands with the lamps, and the snuffers, which were also of gold, ⁵⁰ and the doors with the nails, and the cups, and the dishes, and the censers, which were of gold and embossed, and the leaves of the doors of the inner house; the holy of holies, and the doors of the temple which were overlaid with gold. ⁵¹ And when all the work was finished which Solomon made for the house of the Lord, then Solomon brought the dedications of his father David, and his own dedications, the silver and the gold, and the utensils, and deposited them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.