¹And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and he completed all of his house. ²And he built the house of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, and its width was fifty cubits, and its height was thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar columns, and there were hewn beams of cedar on the columns. ³And it was panelled with cedar above on the sides which rested on the forty-five columns – fifteen per row. ⁴And there were three rows of overhanging windows, with window light paired with window light three times over. ⁵And all the entrances and doorposts were square and protruding, and at the front was window light paired with window light three times over. ⁶And he made a colonnaded portico. Its length was fifty cubits, and its width was thirty cubits. And another portico was in the front of it, with columns and steps in front of it. ⁷Then he made a hall for the throne where he judged – the hall of judgment. And it was installed with cedar on the floor from wall to wall. ⁸And his house where he stayed had another court inside the hall, which was of similar design. And he made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter whom Solomon took as his wife. ⁹All of these were of expensive stone, according to the required dimensions of hewn stone, sawn with a saw, for the inside and the outside, and they were from the foundation to the coping stones, and on the outside up to the great court. ¹⁰So it was founded in expensive and large stones – stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. ¹¹And above were expensive stones – hewn stones and cedar according to the required dimensions. ¹²And the great surrounding court was of three rows of hewn stone, and a row of hewn beams of cedar, and so it was both for the inner court of the house of the Lord and for the hall of the house. ¹³And King Solomon sent men to bring Hiram from Tyre. ¹⁴He was the son of a widow, of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a coppersmith, and he was filled with wisdom and skill and knowledge in making all kinds of artisanry in copper. And he came to King Solomon, and he made all his artisanry. ¹⁵And he fashioned the two copper columns, and the height of the first column was eighteen cubits, and a thread of twelve cubits would go around the second column. ¹⁶And he made two capitals to go on top of the columns, cast in copper. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. ¹⁷And he made trellises – lattice work with tassels – a work in chains for the capitals which were on top of the columns – seven for one capital and seven for the other capital. ¹⁸And he made the columns, and two rows around one trellis to cover the capitals which were on top of the pomegranates, and he did likewise for the second capital. ¹⁹And the capitals which were on top of the columns were made in the fashion of the lilies in the hall – four cubits of them, ²⁰as were the capitals of the two columns – both above and opposite the protrusion which was in front of the trellis – and there were two hundred pomegranates in rows all around on the second capital. ²¹And he erected the columns for the hall of the temple, and when he had erected the right hand column, he called it Jachin, and when he had erected the left hand column, he called it Boaz. ²²And on top of the columns was the lily work. And the column work was completed. ²³And he made the cast artificial sea, ten cubits in diameter, circular all round, and its height was five cubits, and a cord of thirty cubits would fit round it. ²⁴And below its rim encircling it all around were hemispheres, ten to the cubit, encircling the artificial sea. There were two rows of hemispheres, cast integrally. ²⁵It stood on twelve oxen – three facing northwards, and three facing westwards, and three facing southwards, and three facing eastwards. And the artificial sea rested on them, above, and all their posteriors were facing inwards. ²⁶And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its rim was in the style of the rim of the bud of a lily flower. It held two thousand baths in volume. ²⁷And he made ten copper stands. Each stand was four cubits in length and four cubits in width, and three cubits in height. ²⁸And this was the style of the stand. They had borders, and borders between sections. ²⁹And on the borders which were between the sections were lions and oxen and cherubim, and on the sections was an upward facing support. And the space under it was for lions and oxen, with wreaths, work facing down. ³⁰And each stand had four copper wheels, and copper axles, and its four units of axle bearing surfaces for them, below the laver. The bearing surfaces were cast and were opposite each wreath. ³¹And its aperture on the inside of the capital and what was above it was one cubit, and the aperture was round, like the base work, a cubit and a half, and also at its aperture were carvings and unrounded square borders. ³²And the four wheels below the borders, and the axles of the wheels, supported the stand, and the height of each wheel was one and a half cubits. ³³And the construction of the wheels was like the construction of a wagon wheel: their axles and their rims and their spokes and their hubs were all cast. ³⁴And the four axle bearing surfaces were at the four corners of each stand. Its bearing surfaces were integral to the stand itself. ³⁵And at the top of the stand was a cylinder half a cubit high, all the way around, and on top of the stand were its handles and its borders which were integral to it. ³⁶And he engraved cherubim, lions and palm trees on the tablets, on its handles and on its borders, according to the space on each, and wreaths around it. ³⁷In this way he made ten stands, all of them being identical in casting and size and form. ³⁸And he made ten copper lavers. Each laver held forty baths. Each laver was four cubits long. There was one laver on each of the ten stands. ³⁹And he put five of the stands on the right hand side of the house and five on the left hand side of the house, and he put the artificial sea on the right hand side of the house in the southern part of the eastern side. ⁴⁰And Hiram made the lavers and the shovels and the sprinkling basins. And Hiram finished making all the artisanry which he made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord: ⁴¹the two columns and the bowls at their capitals, which are at the top of the two columns, and the two trellises to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the columns, ⁴²and the four hundred pomegranates for the two trellises – two rows of pomegranates to each trellis, to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on top of the columns, ⁴³and the ten stands and the ten lavers on the stands, ⁴⁴and the single artificial sea and the twelve oxen under the artificial sea, ⁴⁵and the pans and the shovels and the sprinkling basins, and all this equipment which Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord in polished copper. ⁴⁶The king cast them in the tract of the Jordan, in the thickly overgrown land between Succoth and Zarethan. ⁴⁷And Solomon stowed all the equipment away, because of its very great abundance, and the weight of the copper was not investigated. ⁴⁸And Solomon made all the equipment which was for the house of the Lord: the golden altar and the golden table on which the showbread is put, ⁴⁹and the five lampstands on the right, and the five on the left, in front of the place of address – they were of seamless gold – and the flowers and the lamps and the golden snuffing-tongs, ⁵⁰and the drain pans and the snuffers, and the sprinkling basins and the ladles and the firepans – of seamless gold – and the hinges for the doors of the inner house, to the holy of holies, and for the doors of the temple building – again of gold. ⁵¹All the artisanry which King Solomon made for the house of the Lord was completed, and Solomon brought in the holy articles of David his father, and he put the silver and the gold and the equipment in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.