1 Kings 7

1 Kings Chapter 7 KJV

1The building of Solomon's house; 2of the house of the forest of Lebanon; 6of the porch of pillars; 7of the porch of judgment; 8of the house for Pharaoh's daughter. 9The costly materials for these buildings, and for the great court round about. 13Hiram, a skilful artificer, is fetched from Tyre. 15His work in brass of the two great pillars, 23the molten sea, 27the ten bases, 38the ten lavers, 40and other vessels for the use of the temple. 48The furniture and vessels of gold which Solomon made for the temple.
1 But Solomon was building 1his own house 2thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2 ¶ He built also 1the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the abeams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
4 And there were windows in three rows, and alight was against light in three ranks.
5 And aall the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
6 ¶ And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was abefore them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were bbefore them.
7 ¶ Then he made a porch for 1the throne where he might judge, even the porch 2of judgment: and it was covered with cedar afrom one side of the floor to the other.
8 ¶ And his house where he dwelt had another 1court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, 2whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
9 All these were of 1costly 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 1foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11 And above were 1costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
12 And the great court round about was with 1three 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 1king Solomon sent and fetched aHiram out of Tyre.
14 He was aa widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and 1his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was 2filled 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 acast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass 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 1five 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 1the 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 1two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
21 And 1he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof aJachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof bBoaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23 ¶ And he made 1a molten 2sea, ten cubits afrom the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops 1compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 It 1stood 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 1hand 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 1ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were 1lions, 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 molten, 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 ajoined 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 itself.
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 thereof were of the same.
36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved 1cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the aproportion 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 1lavers 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 aside of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and 1he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
40 ¶ And aHiram made the lavers, and 1the 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 1two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two 2networks, 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 aupon the pillars;
43 And the 1ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
44 And 1one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
45 And the 1pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were aof bright brass.
46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, ain the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, abecause they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass bfound out.
48 And Solomon 1made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the Lord: 2the altar of gold, and 3the table of gold, whereupon 4the shewbread was,
49 And the 1candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the 2flowers, and the 3lamps, and the 4tongs of gold,
50 And the 1bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the acensers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the 2most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
51 So was ended all the 1work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord. And Solomon brought in the athings which 2David 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.
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