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its length <i>was</i> a hundred cubits, and its breadth <i>was</i> fifty cubits, and its height <i>was</i> of thirty cubits, and <i>it was made</i> with three rows of cedar pillars, and the pillars had side-pieces of cedar. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And he formed the house with chambers above on the sides of the pillars, and the number of the pillars <i>was each</i> row forty and five, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and <i>there were</i> three chambers, and space against space in three rows. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And all the doors and spaces formed like chambers <i>were</i> square, and from door to door <i>was a correspondence</i> in three rows.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And <i>he made</i> the porch of the pillars, <i>they were</i> fifty <i>cubits</i> long and fifty broad, the porch joining them in front; and the <i>other</i> pillars and the thick beam <i>were</i> in front of the house by the porches.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And <i>there was</i> the Porch of seats where he would judge, the porch of judgement.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And their house where he would dwell, <i>had</i> one court communicating with these according to this work; and <i>he built</i> the house for the daughter of Pharao whom Solomon had taken, according to this porch.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>All these <i>were</i> of costly stones, sculptured at intervals within even from the foundation even to the top, and outward to the great court,<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>founded with large costly stones, stones of ten cubits and eight cubits <i>long</i>. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And above with costly stones, according to the measure of hewn stones, and with cedars. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><i>There were</i> three rows of hewn <i>stones</i> round about the great hall, and a row of sculptured cedar: and Solomon finished all his house.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Pillars and Capitals<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And king Solomon sent, and took Chiram out of Tyre, <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>the son of a widow woman; and he <i>was</i> of the tribe of Nephthalim, and his father <i>was</i> a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in art and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought all the works.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the house: eighteen cubits <i>was</i> the height of <i>each</i> pillar, and a circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of the pillar: the flutings <i>were</i> four fingers <i>wide</i>, and thus <i>was</i> the other pillar <i>formed</i>. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And he made two molten chapiters to put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits <i>was</i> the height of one chapiter, and five cubits <i>was</i> the height of the other chapiter. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And he made two ornaments of net-work to cover the chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, formed with net-work, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed <i>the ornaments</i> for the second chapiter. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><font color=blue>(7:19A)</font> and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition <i>equal to</i> the chamber in width. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And he set up the pillars of the porch of the temple: and he set up the one pillar, and called its name Jachum: and he set up the second pillar, and called its name Boloz. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font><p> <A name="24"></a><p class="hdg">The Molten Sea<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was completely circular round about: its height <i>was</i> five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round; <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And <i>there were</i> twelve oxen under the sea: three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts <i>were</i> inward, and the sea <i>was</i> above upon them. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><font color=blue>(7:24A)</font> and its rim <i>was</i> as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it <i>was</i> a span.<p> <A name="28"></a><p class="hdg">The Ten Bronze Stands<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he made ten brazen bases: five cubits <i>was</i> the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and its height <i>was</i> six cubits. <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And this work of the bases <i>was</i> formed with a border the them, and <i>there was</i> a border between the ledges. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And upon their borders between the projection <i>were</i> lions, and oxen, and cherubs: and on the projections, even so above, and also below <i>were</i> the places of lions and oxen, hanging work. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And <i>there were</i> four brazen wheels to one base; and <i>there were</i> brazen bases, and their four sides <i>answering to them</i>, side pieces under the bases. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And <i>there were</i> axles in the wheels under the base. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the height of one wheel <i>was</i> a cubit and a half. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And the work of the wheels <i>was</i> as the work of chariot wheels: their axles, and their felloes, and <i>the rest of</i> their work, <i>were</i> all molten. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders <i>were formed</i> of the base. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And on the top of the base half a cubit <i>was</i> the size of it, <i>there was</i> a circle on the top of the base, and <i>there was</i> the top of its spaces and its borders: and it was open at the top of its spaces. <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And its borders <i>were</i> cherubs, and lions, and palm-trees, upright, each <i>was</i> joined in front <i>and</i> within and round about. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>According to the same form he made all the ten bases, <i>even</i> one order and one measure to all.<p> <A name="39"></a><p class="hdg">The Ten Bronze Basins<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty baths, <i>and</i> measuring four cubits, each laver <i>placed</i> on a several base throughout the ten bases. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.<p> <A name="41"></a><p class="hdg">Completion of the Bronze Works<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And Chiram made the caldrons, and the pans, and the bowls; and Chiram finished making all the works that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of the Lord: <A name="42"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>two pillars and the wreathen works of the pillars on the heads of the two pillars; and the two net-works to cover both the wreathen works of the flutings that were upon the pillars. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>The four hundred pomegranates for both the net-works, two rows of pomegranates for one net-work, to cover both the wreathen works of the bases belonging to both pillars. <A name="44"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>And the ten bases, and the ten lavers upon the bases. <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>And one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea. <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>And the caldrons, and pans, and bowls, and all the furniture, which Chiram made for king Solomon for the house of the Lord: and <i>there were</i> eight and forty pillars of the house of the king and of the house of the Lord: all the works of the king which Chiram made were entirely of brass. <A name="47"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>In the country round about Jordan did he cast them, in the clay land between Socchoth and Sira. <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>There was no reckoning of the brass of which he made all these works, from the very great abundance, there was no end of the weight of the brass.<p> <A name="49"></a><p class="hdg">Completion of the Gold Furnishings<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>And king Solomon took the furniture which <i>Chiram</i> made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the golden table of shewbread. <A name="50"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>And <i>he put</i> the five candlesticks on the left, and five on the right in front of the oracle, <i>being</i> of pure gold, and the lamp-stands, and the lamps, and the snuffers of gold. <A name="51"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>And <i>there were made</i> the porches, and the nails, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the golden censers, of pure gold: and the panels of the doors of the innermost part of the house, <i>even</i> the holy of holies, and the golden doors of the temple.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>So the work of the house of the Lord which Solomon wrought was finished; 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