1 Kings 7
Solomon's Other
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But Solomon was building his own house
thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
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He built also the house of the forest
of Lebanon; the length thereof was a 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.
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And it was covered with cedar
above upon the beams, that lay on forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.
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And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three
ranks.
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And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
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And he made a porch of pillars; the
length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof
thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before
them.
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Then he made a porch for the throne
where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it
was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the
other.
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And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work.
Solomon made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, 1 Kgs. 3.1 like unto this porch.
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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.
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And the foundation was of costly
stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones
of eight cubits.
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And above were costly stones,
after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
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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.
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Solomon Employs Hiram
of Tyre |
2 Chr. 2.13, 14 · 15.17 |
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And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram
out of Tyre.
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He was a widow's son of the tribe
of Naph'tali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker 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.
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For he cast two pillars of brass, of
eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass
either of them about.
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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:
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and nets of checkerwork, and
wreaths of chainwork, for the chapiters which were upon the
top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the
other chapiter.
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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.
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And the chapiters that were upon
the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four
cubits.
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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.
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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: 1 and he
set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz. 2
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And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars
finished.
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The Furnishings for
the Temple |
2 Chr. 4.1--5.1 |
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And he made a molten sea, ten cubits
from 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.
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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.
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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.
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And it was a handbreadth thick,
and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with
flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
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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 of it.
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And the work of the bases was on
this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
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and on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim: and upon
the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and
oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
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And every base had four brazen wheels,
and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters:
under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of
every addition.
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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 a half: and also upon
the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare,
not round.
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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.
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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.
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And there were four undersetters
to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
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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.
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For on the plates of the ledges thereof,
and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm
trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round
about.
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After this manner he made the ten
bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one
size.
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Then made he ten lavers of brass: Ex.
30.17-21 one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten
bases one laver.
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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.
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And Hiram made the lavers, and the
shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work
that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
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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;
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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;
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and the ten bases, and ten lavers on the
bases;
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and one sea, and twelve oxen under the
sea.
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And the pots, and the shovels, and the
basins: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for
the house of the LORD, were of bright
brass.
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In the plain of Jordan did the king cast
them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
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And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the
weight of the brass found out.
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And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD:
the altar of gold, Ex. 30.1-3 and the table of gold, whereupon the showbread was, Ex.
25.23-30
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and the candlesticks Ex. 25.31-40 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,
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and the bowls, and the snuffers, and the
basins, and 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, to
wit, of the temple.
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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; 2
Sam. 8.11 · 1 Chr. 18.11 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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