CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Kings 7 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_kings/7.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_kings/7-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > 1 Kings 7</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_kings/6.htm" title="1 Kings 6">◄</a> 1 Kings 7 <a href="../1_kings/8.htm" title="1 Kings 8">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/1_kings/7.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Solomon’s Palace</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now Solomon built his own house (palace) <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>in thirteen years, and he finished all of his house [in that time]. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He also built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>cubits (150 ft.), its width fifty cubits (75 ft.), and its height thirty cubits (45 ft.), upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And it was covered with cedar [as a roof] on the supporting beams that were upon the forty-five pillars, fifteen in each row. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><i>There were artistic window</i> frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>All the doorways and doorposts [and windows] had squared [artistic] frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He also made the Hall of Pillars; its length was fifty cubits (75 ft.) and its width thirty cubits (45 ft.). There was a porch in front, and pillars and a threshold in front of them. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>He made the hall for the throne where he was to judge, the Hall of Judgment; it was paneled with cedar from [one] floor to [another] floor. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>His house where he was to live, the other courtyard behind the hall, was of similar workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>All these were of expensive stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great courtyard. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The foundation was of expensive stones, large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And above [the foundation] were expensive stones, stones cut according to measure, and cedar. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>So the great courtyard all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams like the inner courtyard of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house. <p class="hdg">Hiram’s Work in the Temple</p><p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now King Solomon sent <i>word</i> and brought <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Hiram [a skilled craftsman] from Tyre. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Hiram was filled with wisdom, understanding, and skill for doing any [kind of] work in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and did all his [bronze] work. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He cast the two pillars of bronze; the one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a [measuring] line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He also made two capitals (crowns) of cast bronze to put on the tops of the pillars; the height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><i>There were</i> nets of network (lattice-work) and twisted threads (wreaths) of chainwork for the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars, seven for one capital and seven for the other. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>So Hiram made the pillars [in this manner], and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and he did the same for the other capital. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The capitals which were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work (design), four cubits. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>The capitals were on the two pillars and also above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around both capitals. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Hiram set up the pillars at the porch of the temple; he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin (may he establish), and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz (in it is strength). <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>On the tops of the pillars was lily work (design). So the work of the pillars was finished. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now he made the Sea (basin) of cast <i>metal,</i> ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, five cubits high and thirty cubits in circumference. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Under its brim were gourds encircling it ten to a cubit, completely surrounding the Sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast in one piece with it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three west, three south, and three east; the Sea <i>was set</i> on top of them, and all their rear parts <i>pointed</i> inward. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>It was a hand width thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[d]</a></span>baths. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Then Hiram made ten bronze stands [for smaller basins]; the length of each stand was four cubits, its width was four cubits and its height was three cubits. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>This was the design of the stands: they had borders between the frames. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>On the borders between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the frames there was a pedestal above. Beneath the lions and oxen were borders of hanging work. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports [for a basin]. Beneath the basin were cast supports with borders at each side. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Its opening inside the crown at the top <i>measured</i> a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half. Also on its opening were carvings, and their borders were square, not round. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Underneath the borders were four wheels, and the axles of the wheels were on the stand. And the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The wheels were made like a chariot wheel: their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all cast. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Now there were four supports at the four corners of each stand; the supports were part of the stand itself. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>On the top of the stand there was a circular piece half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its supports and borders were part of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And on the surface of its supports and its borders Hiram engraved cherubim, lions, and palm-shaped decorations, according to the [available] space for each, with borders all around. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>He made the ten stands like this: they all had one casting, one measure, and one form. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Then he made ten basins of bronze; each basin held forty baths and was four cubits, and there was one basin on each of the ten stands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Then he placed the bases, five on the right [or south] side of the house and five on the left [or north] side; and he set the Sea [of cast metal] on the right side of the house toward the southeast. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished all the work which he did for King Solomon on the house of the LORD: <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>the two pillars and the [two] bowls of the capitals which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the pillars; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>the ten stands and the ten basins on the stands; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>one Sea (basin), and the twelve oxen under the Sea; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>the pails, the shovels, and the bowls; all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were of polished bronze. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>In the plain of the Jordan [River] the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>Solomon left all the utensils <i>unweighed</i>, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be determined. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Solomon made all the [other] furniture which was in the house of the LORD: the [incense] altar of gold; the table of gold on which was the bread of the Presence; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the Holy of Holies (inner sanctuary); with the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold; <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>the cups, snuffers, bowls, spoons, firepans--of pure gold; and the hinges of gold [both] for the doors of the inner house, the Holy of Holies, and for the doors of the house, the main room [the Holy Place]. <p class="paragraph"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_kings/7-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>So all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the LORD was completed. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated--the silver, the gold, and the utensils--and he put them in the treasuries of the LORD’S house.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Solomon built God’s house first, then his own. That his took much longer is no reflection on Solomon, because David had made every possible preparation for building the temple, greatly reducing the time needed to finish it (1 Chr 22:2-5). David even left plans and patterns for the temple and loyal friends eager to help (1 Kin 5:1; 1 Chr 28:14-19).<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> I.e. one cubit is about 18 in.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <i>Huram</i> in 2 Chr 2:3.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[d]</span> <span class="fnverse">26</span> I.e. a Hebrew liquid measurement, about twenty-two liters per bath.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_kings/6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Kings 6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Kings 6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_kings/8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Kings 8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Kings 8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>