1 Kings
1 Kings 7
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1 Kings 7 — Scripture text (King James Version)
But was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. He built also the house of the forest of ; the length thereof was an hundred , and the breadth thereof fifty , and the height thereof thirty , upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks. And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty , and the breadth thereof thirty : and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them. 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. And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. made also an house for ’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch. 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 the outside toward the great court. And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten , and stones of eight . And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. 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. And king sent and fetched out of . He was a widow’s son of the tribe of , and his father was a man of , a worker in brass: and he was filled with , and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king , and wrought all his work. For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen high apiece: and a line of twelve did compass either of them about. And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five , and the height of the other chapiter was five : 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. 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. And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four . 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. And he set up the pillars in the porch of the : and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof : and he set up the left pillar, and he called the name thereof . And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished. And he made a molten sea, ten from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five : and a line of thirty did compass it round about. And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a , compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast. 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. 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. And he made ten bases of brass; four was the length of one base, and four the breadth thereof, and three the height of it. And the work of the bases was this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges: And the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition. And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a : but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round. 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 and a half a . And the work of the wheels was like the work of a wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten. And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself. And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a high: and the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same. For the plates of the ledges thereof, and the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about. After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size. Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four : and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. And he five bases the right side of the house, and five the left side of the house: and he set the sea the right side of the house eastward over against the south. And made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So made an end of doing all the work that he made king for the house of the LORD: The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were 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; 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; And the ten bases, and ten lavers the bases; And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which made to king for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass. In the did the king cast them, in the clay ground between and . And left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out. And 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, And the candlesticks of pure gold, five the right side, and five the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold, And , and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the , and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the . So was ended all the work that king made for the house of the LORD. And brought in the things which his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he among the treasures of the house of the LORD.