1 Kings 7:9-51

1 Kings 7:9-51

[9] All these were of costly  stones,  according to the measures  of hewed stones,  sawed  with saws,  within  and without,  even from the foundation  unto the coping,  and so on the outside  toward the great  court.  [10] And the foundation  was of costly  stones,  even great  stones,  of ten  cubits,  and stones  of eight  cubits.  [11] And above  were costly  stones,  after the measures  of hewed stones,  and cedars.  [12] And the great  court  round about  was with three  rows  of hewed stones,  and a row  of cedar  beams,  both for the inner  court  of the house  of the LORD,  and for the porch  of the house.  [13] And king  Solomon  sent  and fetched  Hiram  out of Tyre.  [14] He was a widow's  son  of the tribe  of Naphtali,  and his father  was a man  of Tyre,  in brass:  and he was filled  with wisdom,  and understanding,  and cunning  to work  all works  in brass.  And he came  to king  Solomon,  and wrought  all his work.  [15] For he cast  two  pillars  of brass,  of eighteen  cubits  high  apiece:  and a line  of twelve  cubits  either  of them about.  [16] And he made  two  chapiters  of molten  brass,  to set  upon the tops  of the pillars:  the height  of the one  chapiter  was five  cubits,  and the height  of the other  chapiter  was five  cubits:  [17] And nets  of checker  work,  and wreaths  of chain  work,  for the chapiters  which were upon the top  of the pillars;  seven  for the one  chapiter,  and seven  for the other  chapiter.  [18] And he made  the pillars,  and two  rows  round about  upon the one  network,  to cover  the chapiters  that were upon the top,  with pomegranates:  and so did  he for the other  chapiter.  [19] And the chapiters  that were upon the top  of the pillars  were of lily  work  in the porch,  four  cubits.  [20] And the chapiters  upon the two  pillars  had pomegranates also above,  over against  the belly  which was by  the network:  and the pomegranates  were two hundred  in rows  round about  upon the other  chapiter.  [21] And he set up  the pillars  in the porch  of the temple:  and he set up  the right  pillar,  and called  the name  thereof Jachin:  and he set up  the left  pillar,  and called  the name  thereof Boaz.  [22] And upon the top  of the pillars  was lily  work:  so was the work  of the pillars  finished.  [23] And he made  sea,  ten  cubits  from the one brim  it was round  all about,  and his height  was five  cubits:  of thirty  cubits  did compass  it round about.  [24] And under the brim  of it round about  there were knops  compassing  it, ten  in a cubit,  compassing  the sea  round about:  the knops  were cast  in two  rows,  when it was cast.  [25] It stood  upon twelve  oxen,  three  looking  toward the north,  and three  looking  toward the west,  and three  looking  toward the south,  and three  looking  toward the east:  and the sea  was set above  upon them, and all their hinder parts  were inward.  [26] And it was an hand breadth  thick,  and the brim  thereof was wrought  like the brim  of a cup,  with flowers  of lilies:  it contained  two thousand  baths.  [27] And he made  ten  bases  of brass;  four  cubits  was the length  of one  base,  and four  cubits  the breadth  thereof, and three  cubits  the height  [28] And the work  of the bases  was on this manner: they had borders,  were between the ledges:  [29] And on the borders  that were between the ledges  were lions,  oxen,  and cherubims:  and upon the ledges  there was a base  above:  and beneath the lions  and oxen  were certain additions  made of thin  work.  [30] And every  base  had four  brasen  wheels,  and plates  of brass:  and the four  corners  thereof had undersetters:  under the laver  were undersetters  at the side  of every  addition.  [31] And the mouth  of it within  the chapiter  and above  was a cubit:  but the mouth  thereof was round  after the work  of the base,  a cubit  and an half:  and also upon the mouth  of it were gravings  with their borders,  foursquare,  not round.  [32] And under  the borders  were four  wheels;  and the axletrees  of the wheels  were joined to the base:  and the height  of a  wheel  was a cubit  and half  a cubit.  [33] And the work  of the wheels  was like the work  of a chariot  wheel:  their axletrees,  and their naves,  and their felloes,  and their spokes,  were all molten.  [34] And there were four  undersetters  to the four  corners  of one  base:  and the undersetters  were of the very base  [35] And in the top  of the base  was there a round  compass  of half  a cubit  high:  and on the top  of the base  the ledges  thereof and the borders  [36] For on the plates  of the ledges  thereof, and on the borders  thereof, he graved  cherubims,  lions,  and palm trees,  according to the proportion  of every one,  and additions  round about.  [37] After this manner he made  the ten  bases:  all of them had one  casting,  one  measure,  and one  size.  [38] Then made  he ten  lavers  of brass:  one  laver  contained  forty  baths:  and every  laver  was four  cubits:  and upon every one  of the ten  bases  one  laver.  [39] And he put  five  bases  on the right  side  of the house,  and five  on the left  side  of the house:  and he set  the sea  on the right  side  of the house  eastward  over against  the south.  [40] And Hiram  made  the lavers,  and the shovels,  and the basons.  So Hiram  made  an end of doing  all the work  that he made  king  Solomon  for the house  of the LORD:  [41] The two  pillars,  and the two bowls  of the chapiters  that were on the top  of the two  pillars;  and the two  networks,  to cover  the two  bowls  of the chapiters  which were upon the top  of the pillars;  [42] And four  hundred  pomegranates  for the two  networks,  even two  rows  of pomegranates  for one  network,  to cover  the two  bowls  of the chapiters  that were upon  the pillars;  [43] And the ten  bases,  and ten  lavers  on the bases;  [44] And one  sea,  and twelve  oxen  under the sea;  [45] And the pots,  and the shovels,  and the basons:  and all these vessels,  which Hiram  made  to king  Solomon  for the house  of the LORD,  brass.  [46] In the plain  of Jordan  did the king  cast  them, in the clay  ground  between Succoth  and Zarthan.  [47] And Solomon  left  all the vessels  unweighed, because they were exceeding  many:  neither was the weight  of the brass  found out.  [48] And Solomon  made  all the vessels  that pertained unto the house  of the LORD:  the altar  of gold,  and the table  of gold,  whereupon the shewbread  [49] And the candlesticks  of pure  gold,  five  on the right  side, and five  on the left,  before  the oracle,  with the flowers,  and the lamps,  and the tongs  of gold,  [50] And the bowls,  and the snuffers,  and the basons,  and the spoons,  and the censers  of pure  gold;  and the hinges  of gold,  both for the doors  of the inner  house,  the most  place, and for the doors  of the house,  to wit, of the temple.  [51] So was ended  all the work  that king  Solomon  made  for the house  of the LORD.  And Solomon  brought in  the things which David  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.