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Depois, Salomão mandou edificar o seu próprio palácio, que levou treze anos a construir. 
Uma das salas do palácio chamava-se Salão da Floresta do Líbano. Era uma sala enorme, medindo 50 metros de comprimento por 25 de largo e 15 de altura. Enormes vigas de cedro do tecto repousavam sobre quatro filas de colunas também de cedro. Tinha três ordens de janelas - quarenta e cinco ao todo - em três das paredes; cinco janelas em cada fila. As janelas e as portas da sala tinham o mesmo tipo de ombreiras. 
Outro era o Salão dos Pilares. Media 25 metros de comprimento e 15 de largo, com um pórtico à entrada e uma abóbada suportada por pilares. 
Havia também a Sala do Trono ou Sala de Julgamento, onde o monarca se sentava para ouvir os processos jurídicos: era revestida com cedro do chão até ao vigamento do tecto. 
Os seus aposentos pessoais - tudo em cedro, igualmente - dispunham-se à volta de um pátio, na retaguarda desta última sala. (Alías reservou apartamentos idênticos, com as mesmas medidas, no palácio que mandou construir para a filha de Faraó, uma das suas mulheres.) 
Todas estas construções foram feitas inteiramente com enormes blocos de pedra, cortados à medida necessária. O custo de cada um desses blocos ficou assim muito elevado. As pedras para os alicerces tinham quatro e cinco metros de largura. Os grandes blocos das paredes, cortados à medida exacta de largura, juntavam-se no alto com as vigas de cedro. O Grande Pátio tinha três correntezas de pedras lavradas nas paredes, que se acoplavam com o travejamento de cedro, tal como acontecia no templo e com o pórtico do palácio. 
O rei Salomão pediu a um homem de Tiro, chamado Hurão, que viesse trabalhar naquelas obras, porque era um hábil artista em bronze. Ele era meio judeu, sendo filho de uma viúva de Naftali; seu pai fora operário de fundição em Tiro. Esse homem veio trabalhar para o rei Salomão. 
Fez então duas grandes colunas de bronze, cada uma com nove metros de altura e seis de circunferência, espessas de dez centímetros. No topo desses pilares fez dois capitéis em forma de lírios, com bronze fundido, cada um com dois metros e meio de altura de dois metros de largura. Cada capitel era decorado com sete conjuntos de rosáceas; e quatrocentas romãs, em duas filas, desenhadas, em cadeia, no bronze. Hurão mandou pôr esses pilares à entrada do templo. A um deles, no lado do sul, deram o nome de Pilar Jaquim; ao outro Pilar Boaz . 
Hurão preparou também um tanque redondo em bronze com dois metros e meio de altura, cinco de diâmetro e quinze de circunferência. Por baixo da borda, por fora, havia duas filas de ornamentos, separadas de alguns centímetros e fundidos juntamente com o tanque. 
Ficava apoiado sobre doze bois, de pé, juntos pelas caudas, três deles virados para o norte, outros três para o sul, três para leste e três para oeste. Os lados do tanque mediam dez centímetros de espessura. O seu rebordo era como o de uma taça. Tinha capacidade para 54.000 litros. 
Depois fez dez bases movíveis, com quatro rodas; cada base era quadrada, de dois metros de lado e metro e meio de altura. Estavam montadas sobre um trem rodado feito de peças cruzadas, decoradas com leões incrustados, bois e anjos; acima e abaixo dos leões e dos bois havia decorações de figuras em espiral. Cada uma destas bases movíveis tinha quatro rodas de bronze e eixos de bronze também; em cada canto das bases havia uns postes de bronze, decorados com figuras em espiral, de cada lado. O alto destas bases consistia numa peça redonda de cinquenta centímetros de altura. O seu centro era côncavo, com setenta e cinco centímetros de fundo, decorado no exterior com espirais. As suas paredes de revestimento eram quadradas, não redondas. 
Estas bases andavam sobre quatro rodas ligadas a eixos que estavam fundidos com as próprias bases. As rodas tinham setenta e cinco centímetros de altura; eram semelhantes às rodas de um carro. Todas as partes das bases tinham sido feitas com bronze fundido, incluindo os eixos, os raios, os arcos e o centro. Havia suportes em cada um dos quatro cantos das bases, os quais também tinham sido fundidos com as bases. Estas tinham também uma bordadura de vinte e três centímetros na parte superior, a que se ligavam umas pegas, tudo fundido de uma só peça com a base. Aos lados, nos espaços onde podia haver decoração, viam-se querubins, leões e palmeiras rodeadas por figuras em espiral. Todas as dez bases eram do mesmo tamanho e feitas da mesma forma, visto que cada uma delas tinha tido o mesmo molde para a sua feitura. 
Depois mandou fazer dez tinas de cobre e colocou-as sobre as bases. Cada uma delas era quadrada, de dois metros de lado, com capacidade para 1.080 litros de água. Cinco destas tinas foram postas dum lado e cinco do outro, do compartimento. O tanque ficava no canto sul, do lado direito da sala. Hurão fez também o resto dos instrumentos necessários: bacias, pás, tinas. Por fim, a obra para o templo do Senhor, que Salomão lhe encomendara, terminou. 
Tudo isto foi feito em bronze fundido e preparado nas planícies do rio Jordão, num sítio entre Sucote e Zaretã. O peso total destas peças não se sabe, pois que não havia possibilidade de as pesar! 
Todos os utensílios e mobiliários do templo foram feitos de ouro puro. Isto incluía o altar, a mesa onde se encontrava exposto o pão da presença de Deus, o candelabro (com cinco luzes à direita e cinco à esquerda, em frente do lugar santíssimo), as flores, as lâmpadas, os espevitadores, as taças, os apagadores, as bacias, os perfumadores, os braseiros, as dobradiças das portas do lugar santíssimo e as da entrada principal do templo. Todos estes objectos eram feitos de ouro puro. 
Quando o templo se acabou de construir, Salomão pôs no tesouro do templo a prata, o ouro e todos os recipientes consagrados por seu pai David. 

And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 
For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred cubits, and its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. 
And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row. 
And there were beams in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks. 
And all the doors and jambs were made square with beams: and window was opposite window in three ranks. 
And he made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its width thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them. 
And 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. 
And his house where he was to dwell, the other court inside the porch, was of like work. He also made a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch. 
All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, 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. 
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 
And above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood. 
And the great court round about had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house. 
And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. 
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 the wisdom and the understanding and the knowledge to work all works in bronze. And he came to King Solomon, and wrought all his work. 
For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about. 
And 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. 
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. 
So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pomegranates: and so he did for the other capital. 
And the capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits. 
And there were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about on the other capital. 
And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz. 
And on the top of the pillars was lily-work: so the work of the pillars was finished. 
And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in a circle, and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it round about. 
And under the brim of it round about there were knops which circled it, for ten cubits, circling the sea round about: the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 
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 hinder parts were inward. 
And it was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. 
And he made the ten bases of bronze; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. 
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges; 
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. 
And every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of bronze; and the four feet of it had undersetters: beneath the basin the undersetters were molten, with wreaths at the side of each. 
And the mouth of it inside the capital and above was a cubit: and its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on the mouth of it were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round. 
And the four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axletrees of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten. 
And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base: its undersetters were of the base itself. 
And in the top of the base there was a round circle half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were of the same. 
And on the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about. 
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. 
And he made ten basins of bronze: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin. 
And he set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south. 
And Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he wrought for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh: 
the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; 
and 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; 
and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases; 
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; 
and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for King Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished bronze. 
The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. 
And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceedingly many: the weight of the bronze could not be found out. 
And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table on which the showbread was, of gold; 
and the lampstands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; 
and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the firepans, 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, [to wit], of the temple, of gold. 
Thus all the work that King Solomon wrought in the house of Yahweh was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh. 

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Depois, Salomão mandou edificar o seu próprio palácio, que levou treze anos a construir. 
Uma das salas do palácio chamava-se Salão da Floresta do Líbano. Era uma sala enorme, medindo 50 metros de comprimento por 25 de largo e 15 de altura. Enormes vigas de cedro do tecto repousavam sobre quatro filas de colunas também de cedro. Tinha três ordens de janelas - quarenta e cinco ao todo - em três das paredes; cinco janelas em cada fila. As janelas e as portas da sala tinham o mesmo tipo de ombreiras. 
Outro era o Salão dos Pilares. Media 25 metros de comprimento e 15 de largo, com um pórtico à entrada e uma abóbada suportada por pilares. 
Havia também a Sala do Trono ou Sala de Julgamento, onde o monarca se sentava para ouvir os processos jurídicos: era revestida com cedro do chão até ao vigamento do tecto. 
Os seus aposentos pessoais - tudo em cedro, igualmente - dispunham-se à volta de um pátio, na retaguarda desta última sala. (Alías reservou apartamentos idênticos, com as mesmas medidas, no palácio que mandou construir para a filha de Faraó, uma das suas mulheres.) 
Todas estas construções foram feitas inteiramente com enormes blocos de pedra, cortados à medida necessária. O custo de cada um desses blocos ficou assim muito elevado. As pedras para os alicerces tinham quatro e cinco metros de largura. Os grandes blocos das paredes, cortados à medida exacta de largura, juntavam-se no alto com as vigas de cedro. O Grande Pátio tinha três correntezas de pedras lavradas nas paredes, que se acoplavam com o travejamento de cedro, tal como acontecia no templo e com o pórtico do palácio. 
O rei Salomão pediu a um homem de Tiro, chamado Hurão, que viesse trabalhar naquelas obras, porque era um hábil artista em bronze. Ele era meio judeu, sendo filho de uma viúva de Naftali; seu pai fora operário de fundição em Tiro. Esse homem veio trabalhar para o rei Salomão. 
Fez então duas grandes colunas de bronze, cada uma com nove metros de altura e seis de circunferência, espessas de dez centímetros. No topo desses pilares fez dois capitéis em forma de lírios, com bronze fundido, cada um com dois metros e meio de altura de dois metros de largura. Cada capitel era decorado com sete conjuntos de rosáceas; e quatrocentas romãs, em duas filas, desenhadas, em cadeia, no bronze. Hurão mandou pôr esses pilares à entrada do templo. A um deles, no lado do sul, deram o nome de Pilar Jaquim; ao outro Pilar Boaz . 
Hurão preparou também um tanque redondo em bronze com dois metros e meio de altura, cinco de diâmetro e quinze de circunferência. Por baixo da borda, por fora, havia duas filas de ornamentos, separadas de alguns centímetros e fundidos juntamente com o tanque. 
Ficava apoiado sobre doze bois, de pé, juntos pelas caudas, três deles virados para o norte, outros três para o sul, três para leste e três para oeste. Os lados do tanque mediam dez centímetros de espessura. O seu rebordo era como o de uma taça. Tinha capacidade para 54.000 litros. 
Depois fez dez bases movíveis, com quatro rodas; cada base era quadrada, de dois metros de lado e metro e meio de altura. Estavam montadas sobre um trem rodado feito de peças cruzadas, decoradas com leões incrustados, bois e anjos; acima e abaixo dos leões e dos bois havia decorações de figuras em espiral. Cada uma destas bases movíveis tinha quatro rodas de bronze e eixos de bronze também; em cada canto das bases havia uns postes de bronze, decorados com figuras em espiral, de cada lado. O alto destas bases consistia numa peça redonda de cinquenta centímetros de altura. O seu centro era côncavo, com setenta e cinco centímetros de fundo, decorado no exterior com espirais. As suas paredes de revestimento eram quadradas, não redondas. 
Estas bases andavam sobre quatro rodas ligadas a eixos que estavam fundidos com as próprias bases. As rodas tinham setenta e cinco centímetros de altura; eram semelhantes às rodas de um carro. Todas as partes das bases tinham sido feitas com bronze fundido, incluindo os eixos, os raios, os arcos e o centro. Havia suportes em cada um dos quatro cantos das bases, os quais também tinham sido fundidos com as bases. Estas tinham também uma bordadura de vinte e três centímetros na parte superior, a que se ligavam umas pegas, tudo fundido de uma só peça com a base. Aos lados, nos espaços onde podia haver decoração, viam-se querubins, leões e palmeiras rodeadas por figuras em espiral. Todas as dez bases eram do mesmo tamanho e feitas da mesma forma, visto que cada uma delas tinha tido o mesmo molde para a sua feitura. 
Depois mandou fazer dez tinas de cobre e colocou-as sobre as bases. Cada uma delas era quadrada, de dois metros de lado, com capacidade para 1.080 litros de água. Cinco destas tinas foram postas dum lado e cinco do outro, do compartimento. O tanque ficava no canto sul, do lado direito da sala. Hurão fez também o resto dos instrumentos necessários: bacias, pás, tinas. Por fim, a obra para o templo do Senhor, que Salomão lhe encomendara, terminou. 
Tudo isto foi feito em bronze fundido e preparado nas planícies do rio Jordão, num sítio entre Sucote e Zaretã. O peso total destas peças não se sabe, pois que não havia possibilidade de as pesar! 
Todos os utensílios e mobiliários do templo foram feitos de ouro puro. Isto incluía o altar, a mesa onde se encontrava exposto o pão da presença de Deus, o candelabro (com cinco luzes à direita e cinco à esquerda, em frente do lugar santíssimo), as flores, as lâmpadas, os espevitadores, as taças, os apagadores, as bacias, os perfumadores, os braseiros, as dobradiças das portas do lugar santíssimo e as da entrada principal do templo. Todos estes objectos eram feitos de ouro puro. 
Quando o templo se acabou de construir, Salomão pôs no tesouro do templo a prata, o ouro e todos os recipientes consagrados por seu pai David. 

And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 
For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred cubits, and its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. 
And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row. 
And there were beams in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks. 
And all the doors and jambs were made square with beams: and window was opposite window in three ranks. 
And he made the porch of pillars; its length was fifty cubits, and its width thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them. 
And 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. 
And his house where he was to dwell, the other court inside the porch, was of like work. He also made a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch. 
All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, 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. 
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 
And above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood. 
And the great court round about had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house. 
And King Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. 
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 the wisdom and the understanding and the knowledge to work all works in bronze. And he came to King Solomon, and wrought all his work. 
For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about. 
And 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. 
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. 
So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pomegranates: and so he did for the other capital. 
And the capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits. 
And there were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about on the other capital. 
And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz. 
And on the top of the pillars was lily-work: so the work of the pillars was finished. 
And he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in a circle, and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it round about. 
And under the brim of it round about there were knops which circled it, for ten cubits, circling the sea round about: the knops were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 
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 hinder parts were inward. 
And it was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths. 
And he made the ten bases of bronze; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. 
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges; 
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. 
And every base had four bronze wheels, and axles of bronze; and the four feet of it had undersetters: beneath the basin the undersetters were molten, with wreaths at the side of each. 
And the mouth of it inside the capital and above was a cubit: and its mouth was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on the mouth of it were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round. 
And the four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axletrees of the wheels were in the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their felloes, and their spokes, and their naves, were all molten. 
And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base: its undersetters were of the base itself. 
And in the top of the base there was a round circle half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were of the same. 
And on the plates of its supports, and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about. 
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. 
And he made ten basins of bronze: one basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin. 
And he set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south. 
And Hiram made the basins, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he wrought for King Solomon in the house of Yahweh: 
the two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; 
and 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; 
and the ten bases, and the ten basins on the bases; 
and the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea; 
and the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: even all these vessels, which Hiram made for King Solomon, in the house of Yahweh, were of burnished bronze. 
The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. 
And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceedingly many: the weight of the bronze could not be found out. 
And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table on which the showbread was, of gold; 
and the lampstands, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; 
and the cups, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and the firepans, 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, [to wit], of the temple, of gold. 
Thus all the work that King Solomon wrought in the house of Yahweh was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated, [even] the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, and put them in the treasuries of the house of Yahweh. 

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