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Chapter 7
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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 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. |
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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
an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to
wife, 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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And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. |
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He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, 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 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. |
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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: and he set up the left pillar, and called the
name thereof Boaz. |
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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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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 an hand breadth 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 an 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: 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, and the table
of gold, whereupon the shewbread was, |
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And the candlesticks 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; even the silver,
and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures
of the house of the LORD. |
