bible_study/Bible/1Kings/1Kgs 7.md

## Solomon Builds His Own House 

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Now Solomon built his own house thirteen years, and he completed all his house. 

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And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was 100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars. 

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And it was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 in each row. 

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_Now there were artistic window_ frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks. 

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And all the doorways and doorposts _had_ squared _artistic_ frames, and window was opposite window in three ranks. 

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Then he made the hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch _was_ in front of them and pillars and a threshold in front of them. 

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And he made the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor. 

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Now his house where he was to live, the other court inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had married. 

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All these were of precious stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. 

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And the foundation was of precious stones, _even_ large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. 

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And above were precious stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar. 

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So the great court all around _had_ three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house. 

## Hiram's Work in the House of Yahweh 

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Then King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. 

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He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and discernment and knowledge to do any work in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and did all his work. 

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And he fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both. 

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He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits. 

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_There were_ nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital. 

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So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital. 

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Now the capitals which _were_ on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits. 

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_And there were_ capitals on the two pillars, even right above the rounded projection which was on the one side of the network; and the pomegranates _numbered_ two hundred in rows around both capitals. 

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Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz. 

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And on the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished. 

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And he made the sea of cast _metal_ ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was five cubits, and thirty cubits in its circumference. 

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Now under its brim gourds went around encircling it ten to a cubit, entirely encircling the sea; the gourds were in two rows, cast _with the Sea_ when it was cast. 

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It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea _was set_ on top of them, and all their rear parts _turned_ inward. 

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And it was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, _as_ a lily blossom; it could hold two thousand baths. 

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Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits and its width four cubits and its height three cubits. 

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Now this was the workmanship of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames, 

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and on the borders which were between the frames _were_ lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the frames there _was_ a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen _were_ wreaths of hanging work. 

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Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the laver _were_ cast supports with wreaths at each side. 

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And its opening inside the capital at the top _was_ a cubit, and its opening _was_ round like the workmanship of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening _there were_ engravings, and their borders were square, not round. 

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And the four wheels _were_ underneath the borders, and the axles of the wheels _were_ on the stand. And the height of a wheel _was_ a cubit and a half. 

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Now the workmanship of the wheels _was_ like the workmanship of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs _were_ all cast. 

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Now _there were_ four supports at the four corners of each stand; its supports _were_ part of the stand itself. 

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And on the top of the stand _there was_ a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders _were_ part of it. 

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And he engraved on the plates of its stays and on its borders, cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the clear space on each, with wreaths _all_ around. 

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He made the ten stands like this: all of them had one casting, one measure and one form. 

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He also made ten lavers of bronze, one laver held forty baths; each laver _was_ four cubits, _and_ on each of the ten stands _was_ one laver. 

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Then he set the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea _of cast metal_ on the right side of the house eastward toward the south. 

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And Hiram made the lavers and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram completed doing all the work that he did for King Solomon _in_ the house of Yahweh: 

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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 the top of the pillars, 

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and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars; 

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and the ten stands with the ten lavers on the stands; 

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and the one sea and the twelve oxen under the sea; 

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and the pots and the shovels and the bowls; and all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon _in_ the house of Yahweh _were_ of polished bronze. 

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On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. 

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And Solomon left all the utensils _unweighed_, because _they were_ too many; the weight of the bronze could not be found out. 

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Solomon also made all the furniture which _was in_ the house of Yahweh: the golden altar and the golden table on which _was_ the bread of the Presence; 

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and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold; 

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and the cups and the snuffers and the bowls and the spoons and the firepans, of pure gold; and the hinges both for the doors of the inner house, the Holy of Holies, _and_ for the doors of the house, _that is_, of the nave, of gold. 

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Thus all the work that King Solomon did _in_ the house of Yahweh was finished. And Solomon brought in the things set apart as holy by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, _and_ he put _them_ in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh.