1 Kings 7:13-51

VIN(i) 13 King Solomon sent for Hiram from Tyre, 14 the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, whose father was from Tyre. A bronze worker, he was wise, knowledgeable, and was skilled in all sorts of bronze working. He went to King Solomon and did all of his work. 15 He fashioned two bronze pillars, each one 27 feet high and having a circumference of 18 feet . 16 And he made two head pieces of molten brass to set on the tops of the pillars, of five cubits long apiece, 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 And he made pomegranates, namely two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars; and so he did for the other capital. 19 And on the capitals which were on top of the pillars in the porch were works of lilies four cubits high. 20 and the caps on the two pillars also above - beside the belly beside the net: with two hundred pomegranates in rows all around on the second cap. 21 He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz. 22 On the top of the pillars was a work of lilies; and so the work of the pillars was finished. 23 And he works a poured sea, ten cubits lip to lip all around and five cubits high: and a line of thirty cubits surround it all around: 24 And under its brim were gourds, going around it, ten by the cubit, going all around the sea. The gourds were cast in two rows when it was cast. 25 The sea stood atop twelve oxen. Three faced north, three faced west, three faced south, and three faced east. The sea was set on top of them, and their hind parts were toward the center. 26 It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. 27 He made the ten stands of bronze; each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits in height. 28 They were made of square panels set in frames. 29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 30 Each cart had four bronze wheels equipped with bronze axels with four support feet. Beneath the basin were cast support structures made like wreaths on each side. 31 Its mouth within the capital and above was a cubit. Its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its mouth were engravings, and their panels were square, not round. 32 Four of the wheels were underneath the frames, and the axles of the wheels were on the stands. The height of each wheel was a cubit and a half. 33 The wheels were like chariot wheels. Their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of copper. 34 And the four undersetters in the four corners were of the very bottoms. 35 In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same. 36 And he engraved cherubs, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its sides, and on its borders, as the place of each, with wreaths all around. 37 This is how the carts were made. They were all alike, having the same size and shape. 38 He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths; each basin was four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands. 39 He placed five of the stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side of the house, and the sea he set on the southeast side of the house. 40 And Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the bowls. And Hiram finished all the work that he made for king Solomon for the house of the LORD: 41 the two pillars and the bowls of the caps on the top of the two pillars; and the two nets to cover the two bowls of the caps on top of the pillars; 42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; 43 the ten stands with the ten basins on the stands, 44 and a sea with twelve oxen under it; 45 and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins. All these vessels which Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of burnished bronze. 46 The king cast them in the plain of Jordan, in the thick soil of the ground between Succoth and Zarethan. 47 Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined. 48 Solomon also made all of the vessels which were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the presence; 49 And the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold, 50 And the bowls, and the wick trimmers, and the basins, and the ladles, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner room, the most holy place, and for the doors of the main hall of the temple. 51 Thus all the work that king Solomon worked in the house of the LORD was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, the silver, the gold and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.