1 Kings 7

Solomon Builds His Palace

1 But Solomon took a thirteen years to build his own house; so he finished all his house.

2 He also built the b House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was 1 one hundred cubits, its width 2 fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars. 3 And it was paneled with cedar above the beams that were on forty-five pillars, fifteen to a row. 4 There were windows with beveled frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers. 5 And all the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames; and window was opposite window in three tiers.

6 He also made the Hall of Pillars: its length was fifty cubits, and its width thirty cubits; and in front of them was a portico with pillars, and a canopy was in front of them.

7 Then he made a hall for the throne, the Hall of Judgment, where he might judge; and it was paneled with cedar from floor to 3 ceiling.

8 And the house where he dwelt had another court inside the hall, of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, c whom he had taken as wife.

9 All these were of costly stones cut to size, trimmed with saws, inside and out, from the foundation to the eaves, and also on the outside to the great court. 10 The foundation was of costly stones, large stones, some ten cubits and some eight cubits. 11 And above were costly stones, hewn to size, and cedar wood. 12 The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams. So were the d inner court of the house of the LORD e and the vestibule of the temple.

The Temple Furnishings

13 Now King Solomon sent and brought 4 Huram from Tyre. 14 f He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and g his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze worker; h he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill in working with all kinds of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and did all his work.

15 And he 5 cast i two pillars of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each. 16 Then he made two capitals of cast bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. 17 He made a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, for the capitals which were on top of the pillars: seven chains for one capital and seven for the other capital. 18 So he made the pillars, and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cover the capitals that were on top; and thus he did for the other capital. 19 The capitals which were on top of the pillars in the hall were in the shape of lilies, four cubits. 20 The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above, by the convex surface which was next to the network; and there were j two hundred such pomegranates in rows on each of the capitals all around. 21 k Then he set up the pillars by the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the right and called its name 6 Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name 7 Boaz. 22 The tops of the pillars were in the shape of lilies. So the work of the pillars was finished.

23 And he made l the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference. 24 Below its brim were ornamental buds encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, m all the way around the Sea. The ornamental buds were cast in two rows when it was cast. 25 It stood on n twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward. 26 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained 8 two thousand baths.

27 He also made ten 9 carts of bronze; four cubits was the length of each cart, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. 28 And this was the design of the carts: They had panels, and the panels were between frames; 29 on the panels that were between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. And on the frames was a pedestal on top. Below the lions and oxen were wreaths of plaited work. 30 Every cart had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and its four feet had supports. Under the laver were supports of cast bronze beside each wreath. 31 Its opening inside the crown at the top was one cubit in diameter; and the opening was round, shaped like a pedestal, one and a half cubits in outside diameter; and also on the opening were engravings, but the panels were square, not round. 32 Under the panels were the four wheels, and the axles of the wheels were joined to the cart. The height of a wheel was one and a half cubits. 33 The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel; their axle pins, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all of cast bronze. 34 And there were four supports at the four corners of each cart; its supports were part of the cart itself. 35 On the top of the cart, at the height of half a cubit, it was perfectly round. And on the top of the cart, its flanges and its panels were of the same casting. 36 On the plates of its flanges and on its panels he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, wherever there was a clear space on each, with wreaths all around. 37 Thus he made the ten carts. All of them were of 10 the same mold, one measure, and one shape.

38 Then o he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver contained 11 forty baths, and each laver was four cubits. On each of the ten carts was a laver. 39 And he put five carts on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the Sea on the right side of the house, toward the southeast.

40 p Huram 12 made the lavers and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing all the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of the LORD: 41 the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two q networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the pillars; 42 r four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the pillars); 43 the ten carts, and ten lavers on the carts; 44 one Sea, and twelve oxen under the Sea;

45 s the pots, the shovels, and the bowls. All these articles which 13 Huram made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of burnished bronze. 46 t In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between u Succoth and v Zaretan. 47 And Solomon did not weigh all the articles, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not w determined.

48 Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of the LORD: x the altar of gold, and y the table of gold on which was z the showbread; 49 the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary, with the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold; 50 the basins, the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the 14 censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner room (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

51 So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished; and Solomon brought in the things a which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and the furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

  1. Cross References
    1 Kings 3:1
    Now Solomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh's daughter; then he brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall all around Jerusalem.
    1 Kings 9:10
    Now it happened at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD and the king's house
    2 Chronicles 8:1
    It came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the house of the LORD and his own house.
  2. Cross References
    1 Kings 10:17
    He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
    1 Kings 10:21
    All King Solomon's drinking vessels were gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. Not one was silver, for this was accounted as nothing in the days of Solomon.
    2 Chronicles 9:16
    He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
  3. Cross References
    1 Kings 3:1
    Now Solomon made a treaty with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and married Pharaoh's daughter; then he brought her to the City of David until he had finished building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall all around Jerusalem.
    1 Kings 9:24
    But Pharaoh's daughter came up from the City of David to her house which Solomon had built for her. Then he built the Millo.
    1 Kings 11:1
    But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites -
    2 Chronicles 8:11
    Now Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the house he had built for her, for he said, "My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places to which the ark of the LORD has come are holy.
  4. Cross References
    1 Kings 6:36
    And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams.
  5. Cross References
    John 10:23
    And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.
    Acts 3:11
    Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly amazed.
  6. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 2:14
    (the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre), skilled to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple and blue, fine linen and crimson, and to make any engraving and to accomplish any plan which may be given to him, with your skillful men and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.
  7. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 4:16
    Also the pots, the shovels, the forks - and all their articles Huram his master craftsman made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD.
  8. Cross References
    Exodus 31:3
    And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.
    Exodus 36:1
    "And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the LORD has commanded."
  9. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:17
    The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital were all of bronze. The second pillar was the same, with a network.
    2 Chronicles 3:15
    Also he made in front of the temple two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
    2 Chronicles 4:12
    The two pillars and the bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the pillars.
    Jeremiah 52:21
    Now concerning the pillars: the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference, and its thickness was four fingers; it was hollow.
  10. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 3:16
    He made wreaths of chainwork, as in the inner sanctuary, and put them on top of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the wreaths of chainwork.
    2 Chronicles 4:13
    Four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on the pillars).
    Jeremiah 52:23
    There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates, all around on the network, were one hundred.
  11. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 3:17
    Then he set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand and the other on the left; he called the name of the one on the right hand Jachin, and the name of the one on the left Boaz.
  12. Cross References
    2 Kings 25:13
    The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried their bronze to Babylon.
    2 Chronicles 4:2
    Then he made the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
    Jeremiah 52:17
    The bronze pillars that were in the house of the LORD, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon.
  13. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 4:3
    And under it was the likeness of oxen encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, all the way around the Sea. The oxen were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
  14. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 4:4
    It stood on twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward.
    2 Chronicles 4:5
    It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained three thousand baths.
    Jeremiah 52:20
    The two pillars, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under it, and the carts, which King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD - the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.
  15. Cross References
    Exodus 30:18
    You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base also of bronze, for washing. You shall put it between the tabernacle of meeting and the altar. And you shall put water in it.
    2 Chronicles 4:6
    He also made ten lavers, and put five on the right side and five on the left, to wash in them; such things as they offered for the burnt offering they would wash in them, but the Sea was for the priests to wash in.
  16. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 4:11
    Then Huram made the pots and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of God:
    2 Chronicles 5:1
    So all the work that Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished; and Solomon brought in the things which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and all the furnishings. And he put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
  17. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:17
    He made a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, for the capitals which were on top of the pillars: seven chains for one capital and seven for the other capital.
    1 Kings 7:18
    So he made the pillars, and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cover the capitals that were on top; and thus he did for the other capital.
  18. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:20
    The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above, by the convex surface which was next to the network; and there were two hundred such pomegranates in rows on each of the capitals all around.
  19. Cross References
    Exodus 27:3
    Also you shall make its pans to receive its ashes, and its shovels and its basins and its forks and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.
    2 Chronicles 4:16
    Also the pots, the shovels, the forks - and all their articles Huram his master craftsman made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the LORD.
  20. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 4:17
    In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between Succoth and Zeredah.
  21. Cross References
    Genesis 33:17
    And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, built himself a house, and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
    Joshua 13:27
    And in the valley Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as its border, as far as the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth, on the other side of the Jordan eastward.
  22. Cross References
    Joshua 3:16
    That the waters which came down from upstream stood still, and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan. So the waters that went down into the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, failed, and were cut off; and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
  23. Cross References
    1 Chronicles 22:3
    And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails of the doors of the gates and for the joints, and bronze in abundance beyond measure.
    1 Chronicles 22:14
    Indeed I have taken much trouble to prepare for the house of the LORD one hundred thousand talents of gold and one million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond measure, for it is so abundant. I have prepared timber and stone also, and you may add to them.
  24. Cross References
    Exodus 37:25
    He made the incense altar of acacia wood. Its length was a cubit and its width a cubit - it was square - and two cubits was its height. Its horns were of one piece with it.
    Exodus 37:26
    And he overlaid it with pure gold: its top, its sides all around, and its horns. He also made for it a molding of gold all around it.
    2 Chronicles 4:8
    He also made ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made one hundred bowls of gold.
  25. Cross References
    Exodus 37:10
    He made the table of acacia wood; two cubits was its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
    Exodus 37:11
    And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made a molding of gold all around it.
  26. Cross References
    Leviticus 24:5 - 8
    And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
  27. Cross References
    2 Samuel 8:11
    King David also dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold that he had dedicated from all the nations which he had subdued -
    1 Chronicles 18:11
    King David also dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold that he had brought from all these nations - from Edom, from Moab, from the people of Ammon, from the Philistines, and from Amalek.
    2 Chronicles 5:1
    So all the work that Solomon had done for the house of the LORD was finished; and Solomon brought in the things which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and all the furnishings. And he put them in the treasuries of the house of God.
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