1 Salomão também construiu o seu palácio e levou treze anos para terminá-lo. 2,3 O Salão da Floresta do Líbano media quarenta e quatro metros de comprimento por vinte e dois de largura, por treze e meio de altura. Ele tinha três fileiras de colunas de cedro, havendo quinze colunas em cada fileira, com vigas de cedro que se apoiavam nelas. O teto era de cedro, estendendo-se até as despensas, que eram apoiadas pelas colunas. 4 Nas paredes de cada lado havia três fileiras de janelas. 5 Todas as portas e todas as janelas eram quadradas, e as três fileiras de janelas de cada parede ficavam exatamente em frente às fileiras de janelas da parede do outro lado.

6 O Salão das Colunas media vinte e dois metros de comprimento por treze e meio de largura. Ele tinha um pórtico que era coberto e sustentado por colunas.

7 A Sala do Trono, também chamada de Salão do Julgamento, onde Salomão julgava as questões, era forrada de cedro desde o chão até as vigas.

8 Em outro pátio, atrás da Sala do Trono, ficava a casa onde Salomão morava. A construção era do mesmo estilo das outras. Salomão também fez uma casa do mesmo tipo para a sua esposa, a filha do rei do Egito.

9 Todas essas construções e também o grande pátio foram feitos de pedras escolhidas, desde os alicerces até a beira do telhado. As pedras foram preparadas na pedreira e cortadas sob medida, sendo os lados de dentro e de fora cortados com serras. 10 Os alicerces foram feitos com pedras grandes preparadas na pedreira; algumas tinham três metros e meio de comprimento, e outras, quatro metros e meio de comprimento. 11 Por cima delas, foram colocadas pedras caras, cortadas sob medida, e vigas de cedro. 12 O pátio do palácio, o pátio interno do Templo e a sala de entrada do Templo tinham paredes feitas com uma carreira de vigas de cedro para cada três carreiras de pedras cortadas.

13 O rei Salomão mandou buscar um homem chamado Hurã, um artífice que morava na cidade de Tiro e que era especialista em trabalhos de bronze. 14 O seu pai, que já havia morrido, era de Tiro e também havia sido artífice especializado em bronze; a sua mãe era da tribo de Naftali. Hurã era um artífice inteligente e capaz. Ele aceitou o convite de Salomão e se encarregou de todo o trabalho em bronze.

15 Hurã fundiu duas colunas de bronze, cada uma com oito metros de altura e um metro e setenta de diâmetro, e as colocou na entrada do Templo. 16 Ele fez também dois remates de coluna, cada um com dois metros e vinte de altura, para serem colocados no alto das colunas. 17 O alto de cada coluna era enfeitado com um desenho de correntes entrelaçadas 18 e duas carreiras de romãs feitas de bronze.

19 Os remates das colunas tinham o formato de lírios, mediam um metro e oitenta de altura 20 e foram colocados numa parte redonda que ficava por cima do desenho de correntes. Em cada remate de coluna havia duzentas romãs de bronze colocadas em duas carreiras.

21 Hurã colocou essas duas colunas de bronze na frente da entrada do Templo. A que ficava no lado sul se chamava Jaquim , e a que ficava no lado norte se chamava Boaz . 22 Os remates das colunas em forma de lírios, feitos de bronze, estavam no alto das colunas.

E assim foi terminado o trabalho das colunas.

23 Hurã fez um tanque redondo de bronze, com dois metros e vinte de profundidade, quatro metros e quarenta de diâmetro e treze metros e vinte de circunferência. 24 Ao redor da borda de fora do tanque havia duas carreiras de cabaças de bronze que haviam sido fundidas todas em uma só peça junto com o tanque. 25 O tanque se apoiava sobre as costas de doze touros de bronze que olhavam para fora: três olhavam para o norte, três olhavam para o oeste, três olhavam para o sul, e três olhavam para o leste. 26 A grossura das paredes do tanque era de quatro dedos. A sua borda era como a borda de um copo, curvando-se para fora como as pétalas de um lírio. A capacidade do tanque era de mais ou menos quarenta mil litros.

27 Hurã fez também dez carretas de bronze. Cada uma media um metro e oitenta de comprimento, um metro e oitenta de largura e um metro e trinta de altura. 28 Elas foram feitas de painéis quadrados, que eram montados em molduras. 29 Nesses painéis havia figuras de leões, touros e querubins. E, nas molduras acima e abaixo dos leões e dos touros, havia desenhos de espirais em relevo. 30 Cada carreta tinha quatro rodas de bronze, com eixos de bronze. Nos quatro cantos havia apoios de bronze para uma bacia; os apoios eram enfeitados com figuras de espirais em relevo. 31 No alto havia uma guarnição redonda para a bacia. Essa guarnição passava quarenta e cinco centímetros para cima do alto da carreta e dezoito centímetros para baixo, para dentro dela. Ao redor dela havia entalhes. 32 As rodas tinham sessenta e sete centímetros de altura; elas ficavam debaixo dos painéis, e os eixos eram feitos em uma só peça com as carretas. 33 As rodas eram como as rodas de uma carruagem; os seus eixos, bordas, raios e os seus cubos eram todos de bronze. 34 Havia quatro apoios nos cantos, debaixo de cada carreta, os quais formavam uma só peça com a carreta. 35 Havia uma braçadeira de vinte e dois centímetros ao redor do alto de cada carreta; os seus apoios e os painéis formavam uma só peça com a carreta. 36 Os apoios e os painéis eram enfeitados com figuras de querubins, leões e palmeiras, que cobriam todo o espaço que havia; e ao redor dessas figuras havia desenhos em espiral. 37 Foi assim, então, que as carretas foram feitas; todas elas eram iguais, tendo o mesmo tamanho e formato.

38 Hurã fez também dez bacias de bronze, uma para cada carreta. Cada bacia tinha um metro e oitenta de diâmetro, e a sua capacidade era de mais ou menos oitocentos e trinta litros. 39 Ele colocou cinco carretas no lado sul do Templo e as outras cinco no lado norte. O tanque ele colocou no canto sudeste.

40-45 Hurã fez também caldeirões, pás e bacias e assim terminou todo o trabalho encomendado pelo rei Salomão para o Templo do Senhor. Esta é a lista do que ele fez:

duas colunas;

dois remates em forma de taças, que ficavam em cima das colunas;

desenhos de correntes entrelaçadas de cada remate;

quatrocentas romãs de bronze, em duas carreiras de cem, ao redor do desenho de cada remate;

dez carretas;

dez bacias;

um tanque;

doze touros que sustentavam o tanque;

caldeirões, pás e bacias.

Todos os objetos destinados ao Templo que Hurã fez para o rei Salomão eram de bronze polido. 46 O rei mandou que tudo fosse feito na fundição, entre Sucote e Sartã, no vale do rio Jordão. 47 Salomão não mandou pesar esses objetos de bronze porque eram muitos, e por isso o seu peso nunca foi calculado.

48 Salomão também mandou fazer para o Templo os seguintes objetos de ouro: o altar; a mesa para os pães oferecidos a Deus; 49 os dez castiçais que ficavam em frente ao Lugar Santíssimo, cinco no lado sul e cinco no lado norte; as flores, as lamparinas e as tenazes; 50 as taças, as tesouras de cortar pavios de lamparinas, as bacias, os pratos para o incenso e os braseiros; as dobradiças para as portas do Lugar Santíssimo e para as portas do Templo que davam para fora. Todos esses objetos foram feitos de ouro.

51 Quando o rei Salomão terminou todo o trabalho do Templo, colocou na sala do tesouro do Templo todas as coisas que Davi, o seu pai, havia separado para o Senhor Deus, isto é, a prata, o ouro e outros objetos.

1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 2 For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. 3 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row. 4 There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks. 5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams; and window was facing window in three ranks. 6 He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them. 7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor. 8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch. 9 All these were of costly stones, even 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. 10 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. 11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. 12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

13 King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre. 14 He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon and performed all his work. 15 For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them. 16 He 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. 17 There were nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. 18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows of pomegranates around the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and he did so for the other capital. 19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits. 20 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital. 21 He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar and called its name Boaz. 22 On the tops of the pillars was lily work. So the work of the pillars was finished.

23 He made the molten sea ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. 24 Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 25 It stood on 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 on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward. 26 It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

27 He made the ten bases of bronze. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. 28 The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges; 29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 30 Every base had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze; and its four feet had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each. 31 Its opening within the capital and above was a cubit. Its opening was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening were engravings, and their panels were square, not round. 32 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 33 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all of cast metal. 34 There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself. 35 In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same. 36 On the plates of its supports and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around. 37 He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. 38 He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths. Every basin measured four cubits. One basin was on every one of the ten bases. 39 He set the bases, five 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 eastward and toward the south.

40 Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house: 41 the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; 42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; 43 the ten bases; the ten basins on the bases; 44 the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea; 45 the pots; the shovels; and the basins. All of these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished bronze. 46 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. 47 Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold; 49 and the lamp stands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; 50 the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.

51 Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the vessels—and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.