1 His own house Solomon spent thirteen years building, until he had completed all of it.
2 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon, a hundred cubits in length, fifty in width and thirty in height, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams resting on the pillars.
3 It was covered with cedar above the side rooms that lay on the pillars, forty-five in number, fifteen to a row.
4 There were framed windows in three rows, window opposite window, three times.
5 All the doors and doorposts were squared in their frames, and window was opposite window, three times.
6 The Hall of Pillars he made fifty cubits in length and thirty in width, with a porch at the front and pillars with a canopy before them.
7 He also made the Hall of the Throne, where he would give judgment, the Hall of Judgment, and it was covered with cedar from one floor to the other.
8 The house where he himself would live, in the other court set back from the hall, was of like workmanship. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had married.
9 All these were built of valuable stones, cut to measure and trimmed with saws on the inner and outer sides, from foundation up to the coping, and on the outside as far as the great court.
10 The foundation was laid with valuable stones, large stones, some ten cubits and some eight cubits.
11 Above them were valuable stones, cut to measure, and cedar wood.
12 Around the great court were three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams, the same as the inner court of the LORD's house and the porch of the house.
13 King Solomon sent for Hiram and had him brought from Tyre.
14 He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali; his father had been a man of Tyre who worked in bronze. He was full of wisdom, understanding and knowledge for doing every kind of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
15 He fashioned the two bronze pillars; each pillar stood eighteen cubits high, and a cord of twelve cubits went around the other.
16 He made two capitals of molten bronze to put on the tops of the pillars, the one capital five cubits high and the other capital five cubits high.
17 For the capitals on the tops of the pillars there were lattices of network and twisted chains like wreaths, seven for one capital and seven for the other.
18 He made the pillars, with two rows of pomegranates all around on the one lattice to cover the capital at the top of the pillar, and he did likewise for the second capital.
19 The capitals at the tops of the pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies, four cubits.
20 On the capitals of the two pillars, above and next to the rounded part beside the lattice, were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the second capital.
21 He erected the pillars at the porch of the nave. He erected the right-hand pillar and named it Jachin, and he erected the left-hand pillar and named it Boaz.
22 The tops of the pillars had lily shapes, and so the work on the pillars was finished.
23 He made the Sea of molten metal, circular, ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high, and a cord of thirty cubits would go around it.
24 Under its rim gourds went around it on every side, ten to each cubit, encircling the Sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast together with it.
25 It rested on twelve oxen: three looked north, three looked west, three looked south and three looked east. The Sea sat on them, and their hind parts all faced inward.
26 It was a handbreadth thick; its rim was formed like a cup's rim, like a lily flower. Its capacity was two thousand baths.
27 He made the ten bronze stands, each four cubits in length, four in width and three in height.
28 The stands were made this way: they had side panels, and the panels were fixed between the crossbars.
29 On the panels between the crossbars there were lions, oxen and cherubim, and on the crossbars likewise; above and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hammered work.
30 Every stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and on its four corners were supports; the supports were cast under the basin, with wreaths beside each one.
31 Its mouth, inside the crown and rising above it, was a cubit; the mouth was round, made like a pedestal, a cubit and a half. On its mouth too there were engravings, and the panels were square, not round.
32 The four wheels were beneath the panels, and the wheel axles were attached to the stand. Each wheel was a cubit and a half high.
33 The wheels were built like chariot wheels; axles, rims, spokes and hubs were all of cast metal.
34 Four supports were at the four corners of every stand, made of a piece with the stand.
35 At the top of the stand was a round rim half a cubit high, and on top of the stand its braces and panels were all of a piece with it.
36 On the plates of its braces and on its panels he engraved cherubim, lions and palm trees, as space allowed on each, with wreaths all around.
37 So he made the ten stands; they were all cast alike, with one measure and one shape.
38 He made ten bronze basins; every basin held forty baths and measured four cubits, one basin on each of the ten stands.
39 He placed five stands on the south side of the house and five on the north side, and the Sea he placed on the south side of the house, at the southeast corner.
40 Hiram also made the basins, shovels and sprinkling bowls. So Hiram completed all the work he did for King Solomon on the LORD's house:
41 two pillars; the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the two pillars; the two lattices covering the two bowls of the capitals on top of the pillars;
42 four hundred pomegranates for the two lattices, two rows of pomegranates to each lattice, covering the two bowls of the capitals on the pillars;
43 ten stands with ten basins on the stands;
44 one Sea with twelve oxen beneath the Sea;
45 and the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls. All these vessels Hiram made for King Solomon for the LORD's house were of polished bronze.
46 In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay soil between Succoth and Zarethan.
47 Solomon did not weigh any of the vessels, for they were exceedingly many; the weight of the bronze was never ascertained.
48 Solomon also made all the furnishings in the LORD's house: the golden altar; the golden table for the bread of the Presence;
49 the lampstands of refined gold, five on the right and five on the left before the inner sanctuary; the gold flowers, lamps and tongs;
50 the cups, snuffers, sprinkling bowls, dishes and firepans of refined gold; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the house, the nave.
51 When all the work King Solomon did for the LORD's house was complete, Solomon brought in the holy gifts of his father David, the silver, the gold and the vessels, and placed them in the treasuries of the LORD's house.