1 Kings 7

1 Solomon took thirteen years to build his own palace.

Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.

2 He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width was fifty cubits, and its height was thirty cubits. The palace was built with four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.

He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.

3 The house was roofed with cedar that rested on beams. Those beams were supported by pillars. There were forty-five beams, fifteen in a row.

The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

4 There were beams in three rows, and each window was opposite another window in three sets.

There were three rows of high windows facing one another in three tiers.

5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams, and window was opposite window in three sets.

All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.

6 There was a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front and pillars and a roof.

Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.

7 Solomon built the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of justice. It was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.

8 Solomon's house in which he was to live, in another courtyard within the palace grounds, was similarly designed. He also built a house like this for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken as a wife.

And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.

9 These buildings were adorned with costly hewn stones, precisely measured and cut with a saw and smoothed on all sides. These stones were used from the foundation to the stones on top, and also on the outside to the great court.

All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.

10 The foundation was constructed with very large, costly stones of eight and ten cubits in length.

The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.

11 Above were costly hewn stones precisely cut to size, and cedar beams.

Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.

12 The great courtyard surrounding the palace had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams like the courtyard of the temple of Yahweh and the temple portico.

The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.

13 King Solomon sent for Huram and brought him from Tyre.

Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.

14 Huram was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali; his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill to do great work with bronze. He came to King Solomon to work with bronze for the king.

He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.

15 Huram fashioned the two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

16 He made two capitals of polished bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of each capital was five cubits.

He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.

17 Checker latticework and wreaths of chain work for the capitals decorated the top of the pillars, seven for each capital.

For the capitals on top of the pillars he made a network of lattice, with wreaths of chainwork, seven for each capital.

18 So Huram made two rows of pomegranates around the top of each pillar to decorate their capitals.

Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.

19 The capitals on the tops of the portico pillars were decorated with lilies, four cubits high.

And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.

20 The capitals on these two pillars also included, close to their very top, two hundred pomegranates in rows all around.

On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.

21 He raised up the pillars at the temple portico. The pillar on the right was named Jakin, and the pillar on the left was named Boaz.

Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.

22 On the top of the pillars were decorations like lilies. The fashioning of the pillars was done in this way.

And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.

23 Huram made the round sea of cast metal, ten cubits from brim to brim. Its height was five cubits, and the sea was thirty cubits in circumference.

He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.

24 Under the brim encircling the sea were gourds, ten in each cubit, cast in one piece with “The Sea,” when that basin was cast.

Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.

25 “The Sea” stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east. “The Sea” was set on top of them, and all their hindquarters were toward the inside.

The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

26 The sea was as thick as the width of a hand, and its brim was forged like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. The sea held two thousand baths of water.

It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.

27 Huram made the ten stands of bronze. Each stand was four cubits long and four cubits wide, and the height was three cubits.

In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

28 The work of the stands was like this. They had panels that stood between frames,

This was the design of the stands: They had side panels attached to uprights,

29 and on the panels and on the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hammered work.

and on the panels between the uprights were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the uprights was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of beveled work.

30 Every stand had four bronze wheels and axles, and its four corners had supports beneath for the basin. The supports were cast with wreaths on the side of each one.

Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and a basin resting on four supports, with wreaths at each side.

31 The opening was round like a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide, and was within a crown that rose up a cubit. On the opening were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.

The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.

32 The four wheels were underneath the panels, and the axles of the wheels and their housings were in the stand. The height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

There were four wheels under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand; each wheel was a cubit and a half in diameter.

33 The wheels were forged like chariot wheels. Their housings, rims, spokes, and hubs were all cast metal.

The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.

34 There were four handles at the four corners of each stand, forged into the stand itself.

Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.

35 In the top of the stands there was a round band half a cubit deep, and on the top of the stand its supports and panels were attached.

At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.

36 On the surfaces of the supports and on the panels Huram engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees that covered the space available, and they were surrounded by wreaths.

He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and panels, wherever each had space, with wreaths all around.

37 He made the ten stands in this manner. All of them were cast in the same molds, and they had one size, and the same shape.

In this way he made the ten stands, each with the same casting, dimensions, and shape.

38 Huram made ten basins of bronze. One basin could hold forty baths of water. Each basin was four cubits across and there was one basin on each of ten stands.

He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

39 He made five stands on the south-facing side of the temple and five on the north-facing side of the temple. He set “The Sea” on the east corner, facing toward the south of the temple.

He set five stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north, and he put the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple.

40 Huram made the basins and the shovels and the sprinkling bowls. Then he finished all the work that he did for King Solomon in the temple of Yahweh:

Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:

41 the two pillars, and the bowl-like capitals that were on top of the two pillars, and the two sets of decorative latticework to cover the two bowl like capitals that were on top of the pillars.

the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars; the two sets of network covering both bowls of the capitals atop the pillars;

42 He made the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of decorative latticework (two rows of pomegranates for each set of latticework to cover the two bowl-like capitals that were on the pillars);

the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars);

43 the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands.

the ten stands; the ten basins on the stands;

44 He made the large basin called “The Sea” with its twelve oxen under it;

the Sea; the twelve oxen underneath the Sea;

45 also the pots, shovels, basins, and all the other implements. Huram made them out of polished bronze, for King Solomon, for the temple of Yahweh.

and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.

46 The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

47 Solomon did not weigh all the utensils because there were too many to weigh, because the weight of the bronze could not be measured.

Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

48 Solomon had made all the furnishings that were in the temple of Yahweh out of gold: the golden altar and the table on which the bread of the presence was to be placed;

Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of the LORD: the golden altar; the golden table on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;

49 the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner room, were of pure gold, and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs were of gold.

the lampstands of pure gold in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right side and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;

50 Solomon also had made the cups, lamp trimmers, basins, spoons, and incense burners, all of which were made of pure gold; he had sockets of gold made for the doors of the inner room (which was the most holy place), and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and censers; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the Most Holy Place ) as well as for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

51 In this way, all the work that King Solomon directed for the house of Yahweh was finished. So Solomon brought in the things that were set apart by David, his father, and the silver, the gold, and the furnishings, and put them into the storerooms of the house of Yahweh.

So all the work that King Solomon had performed for the house of the LORD was completed. Then Solomon brought in the items his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the furnishings—and he placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.