1But Solomon was thirteen years building his own house, and he finished all of it.
2He also built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. It stood on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams resting on the pillars.
3It was roofed with cedar above the beams, which lay on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.
4There were windows in three rows, and window faced window in three ranks.
5All the doors and door posts were square, with the windows. And window faced window in three ranks.
6He made a porch of pillars. It was fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. The porch was in front of them, and the other pillars and the thick beam were in front of them.
7Then he made a porch for the throne where he would judge, the porch of judgment. It was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8His own house, where he lived, had another court inside the porch, made in the same way. Solomon also made a house like this porch for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married.
9All these were made of costly stones, cut to measure, sawed with saws inside and outside, from the foundation up to the coping, and so also on the outside toward the great court.
10The foundation was of costly stones, great stones: stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
11Above them were costly stones, cut to measure, and cedar wood.
12The great court all around had three rows of cut stones and a row of cedar beams. So also did the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house.
13King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
14He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass. He was filled with wisdom, understanding and skill to do any work in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
15He cast two pillars of brass, each eighteen cubits high. A line of twelve cubits went around each of them.
16He made two capitals of cast brass to set on the tops of the pillars. One capital was five cubits high, and the other capital was five cubits high.
17He made nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital.
18He made the pillars, and two rows all around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top, with pomegranates. He did the same for the other capital.
19The capitals on the top of the pillars in the porch were lily work, four cubits.
20The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above, close to the rounded part beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows all around on the other capital.
21He set up the pillars in the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar and called it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and called it Boaz.
22On the top of the pillars was lily work. So the work of the pillars was finished.
23He made a cast metal sea, ten cubits from one brim to the other. It was round all about, and five cubits high. A line of thirty cubits went around it.
24Under its brim, all around it, were knops, ten to a cubit, going all around the sea. The knops were cast in two rows when the sea was cast.
25It stood on twelve oxen: three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on top of them, and all their hind parts faced inward.
26It was a hand's breadth thick, and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.
27He made ten bases of brass. Each base was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
28The bases were made in this way: they had panels, and the panels were set between the ledges.
29On the panels between the ledges were lions, oxen and cherubim. On the ledges there was a base above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hammered work.
30Every base had four brass wheels and plates of brass. Its four corners had supports, and under the laver were cast supports, beside each wreath.
31Its opening, inside the capital and above it, was a cubit. The opening was round, made like a base, a cubit and a half. On the opening also there were carvings with their panels, square, not round.
32Under the panels were four wheels, and the axles of the wheels were joined to the base. Each wheel was a cubit and a half high.
33The wheels were made like a chariot wheel. Their axles, their hubs, their rims and their spokes were all cast metal.
34There were four supports at the four corners of each base, and the supports were part of the base itself.
35At the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high. At the top of the base, its ledges and its panels were all of one piece with it.
36On the plates of its ledges and on its panels he carved cherubim, lions and palm trees, as much as there was room for each, with wreaths all around.
37In this way he made the ten bases. All of them were cast alike, of one measure and one size.
38Then he made ten lavers of brass. Each laver held forty baths, and each laver was four cubits across. There was one laver on each of the ten bases.
39He put five bases on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house, toward the east, opposite the south.
40Hiram made the lavers, the shovels and the basins. So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon for the house of the LORD:
41the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the two pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals on the top of the pillars;
42the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals on the pillars;
43the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases;
44the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea;
45the pots, the shovels and the basins. All these vessels, which Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of polished brass.
46The king cast them in the plain of Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
47Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so very many. The weight of the brass was never found out.
48Solomon made all the vessels that belonged to the house of the LORD: the altar of gold; the table of gold, where the showbread was;
49the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner room; and the flowers, the lamps and the tongs of gold;
50the bowls, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, that is, of the temple.