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Salomão edificou a sua casa, levando treze anos para concluí-la. 
Edificou a casa do bosque do Líbano, a qual tinha cem cúbitos de comprido, cinqüenta de largo e trinta de alto, repousando sobre quatro ordens de colunas de cedro, com vigas de cedro sobre as colunas. 
Por cima a cobertura era de cedro, abrangendo as câmaras laterais em número de quarenta e cinco, quinze em cada ordem, as quais repousavam sobre as colunas. 
Havia entradas para a luz em três ordens, e janela correspondia a janela em três fileiras. 
Todas as portas e umbreiras eram de vigas em quadro; e janela correspondia a janela em três fileiras. 
O pórtico, que tinha cinqüenta cúbitos de comprido, e trinta de largo, fê-lo de colunas; e defronte delas outro pórtico com colunas e degraus à entrada. 
Fez também o pórtico do trono, onde julgasse, a saber, o pórtico do juízo, o qual era coberto de cedro desde o soalho ao teto. 
A sua casa de morada, em outro átrio por dentro do pórtico, era de obra semelhante. Fez também para a filha de Faraó (a qual Salomão tomara por mulher) uma casa semelhante a este pórtico. 
Todos estes edifícios por dentro e por fora eram de pedra de preço, a saber, de pedras cortadas sob medida, serradas à serra desde os fundamentos até o cimo das paredes, e por fora até o grande átrio. 
Os fundamentos eram de pedras de preço, pedras grandes, de dez e de oito cúbitos, 
e por cima delas pedras de preço, cortadas sob medida, e madeira de cedro. 
Ao redor do grande átrio havia três ordens de pedras cortadas, e uma ordem de vigas de cedro, tais como o átrio interior da casa de Jeová, e o pórtico da casa. 
Enviou o rei Salomão, e mandou trazer de Tiro a Hirão, 
que era filho duma mulher viúva da tribo de Naftali, e dum homem de Tiro, que trabalhava em bronze. Hirão era cheio de sabedoria, de entendimento e de ciência para fazer toda a sorte de obras de bronze. Veio ter com o rei Salomão, e executou todas as suas obras. 
Pois formou as duas colunas de bronze, tendo cada uma delas a altura de dezoito cúbitos e uma circunferência que correspondia a uma linha de doze cúbitos. 
Fez também dois capitéis de bronze fundido para os pôr sobre o alto das colunas; um capitel tinha cinco cúbitos de altura, e o outro capitel tinha também cinco cúbitos de altura. 
Havia redes de malhas, e grinaldas de cadeias, para os capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas: sete para um capitel, e sete para o outro. 
Fez as colunas, e havia duas ordens de romãs ao redor por cima duma rede para cobrir os capitéis que estavam no alto das colunas; assim também fez para o outro capitel. 
Os capitéis que estavam no alto das colunas no pórtico na parte que figuravam lírios, tinham quatro cúbitos. 
Perto da parte globular, próximo à rede, os capitéis que estavam em cima sobre as duas colunas, tinham duzentas romãs, dispostas em ordens ao redor sobre um e outro capitel. 
Levantou as colunas no pórtico do templo: tendo levantado a coluna direita, pôs-lhe o nome de Jaquin; e tendo levantado a coluna esquerda, pôs-lhe o nome de Boaz. 
O trabalho figurando lírios estava em cima das colunas: assim se acabou a obra das colunas. 
Fez também o mar de fundição de dez cúbitos duma borda à outra, perfeitamente redondo, e de altura de cinco cúbitos: a sua circunferência correspondia a uma linha de trinta cúbitos. 
Por baixo da sua borda havia saliências em número de dez por cúbito, que cingiam o mar: as saliências estavam em duas ordens e fundidas, quando o mar foi fundido. 
Firmava-se sobre doze bois, três dos quais olhavam para o norte, três para o ocidente, três para o sul, e três para o oriente: o mar lhes ficava por cima, e todas as partes posteriores dos seus corpos estavam para a banda de dentro. 
A grossura do mar era dum palmo; e a sua borda foi feita como a dum copo, como a flor dum lírio. Ele levava dois mil batos. 
Fez também dez bases de bronze: cada uma tinha quatro cúbitos de comprido, quatro de largo e três de alto. 
A obra das bases era a seguinte: tinham elas almofadas entre as junturas; 
sobre as almofadas que estavam entre as junturas havia leões, bois e querubins; nas junturas, da parte de cima havia uma projeção: e debaixo dos leões e dos bois havia festões pendentes. 
Cada base tinha quatro rodas de bronze, e eixos de bronze: os seus quatro pés tinham uns como ombrinhos fundidos, que, tendo festões ao lado, estavam debaixo do lavatório. 
A abertura na parte superior da base que recebia o capitel era dum cúbito; e a abertura no capitel era redonda, como a obra dum pedestal, e dum cúbito e meio, tendo a sua borda entalhes, cujas almofadas eram quadradas, não redondas. 
Debaixo das almofadas estavam as quatro rodas, cujos eixos descansavam na base: cada roda tinha cúbito e meio de altura. 
As rodas eram como as dum carro: os seus eixos, as suas pinas, os seus raios e os seus cubos, tudo era fundido. 
Aos quatro cantos de cada base havia quatro ombrinhos que faziam parte das mesmas. 
No alto da base havia um cinto redondo, que tinha meio cúbito de alto, e sobre o topo da mesma os seus esteios e as suas almofadas formavam uma só peça com ela. 
Nas placas dos seus esteios, e nas almofadas gravou querubins, leões e palmeiras, segundo o espaço que havia em cada uma, com festões ao redor. 
Deste modo fez as dez bases: todas tinham a mesma fundição, a mesma medida e a mesma forma. 
Fez também dez lavatórios de bronze: cada lavatório levava quarenta batos, e era de quatro cúbitos; e sobre cada uma das dez bases estava um lavatório. 
Pôs as dez bases, cinco ao lado direito, e cinco ao lado esquerdo da casa; e pôs o mar ao lado direito da casa da banda oriental na direção do sul. 
Fez também Hirão os lavatórios, e as pás e as bacias. Acabou Hirão de fazer toda a obra que executou para o rei Salomão na casa de Jeová: 
as duas colunas, e os dois globos dos capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas; as duas redes para cobrir os dois globos dos capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas; 
as quatrocentas romãs para cobrir as duas redes: duas ordens de romãs para cada rede, para cobrir os dois globos dos capitéis que estavam sobre as colunas; 
as dez bases, e os dez lavatórios sobre as bases; 
o mar com os doze bois por baixo; 
os caldeirões e as pás e as bacias; todos estes vasos que fez Hirão para o rei Salomão na casa de Jeová eram de bronze polido. 
O rei os fez fundir na planície do Jordão, numa terra argilosa entre Sucote e Zaretã. 
Deixou Salomão de pesar todos os vasos devido ao seu excessivo número: não se averiguou o peso de bronze. 
Fez Salomão todos os vasos que estavam na casa de Jeová: o altar de ouro, e a mesa sobre a qual estavam os pães da proposição, de ouro; 
os candeeiros, cinco à direita, e cinco à esquerda, diante do oráculo, de ouro puro; as flores, as lâmpadas e as tenazes, de ouro; 
as taças, os apagadores, as bacias, as colheres e os braseiros, de ouro puro; e de ouro as dobradiças para as portas da casa interior, para as do santo dos santos, e para as da casa, isto é, do templo. 
Assim se acabou toda a obra que o rei Salomão mandou fazer na casa de Jeová. Salomão meteu nela as cousas que seu pai Davi tinha dedicado, a saber, a prata e o ouro e os vasos, que depositou nos tesouros da casa de Jeová. 

Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete. 
And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars. 
And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line. 
There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line. 
And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines. 
And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it. 
Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof. 
And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife. 
All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments. 
And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square. 
Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood. 
The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house. 
Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre. 
He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him. 
He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same. 
And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the crowns were five cubits high. 
There were nets of open-work for the crowns on the tops of the pillars, a net of open-work for one and a net of open-work for the other. 
And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way. 
The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across. 
And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown. 
He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz. 
The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete. 
And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round. 
And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal. 
It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them. 
It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths. 
And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high. 
And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework; 
And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the frame; and over and under the lions and the oxen and the winged ones were steps. 
Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates under them; the angle-plates under the base were of metal, and there were ornaments at the side of every one. 
The mouth of it inside the angle-plate was one cubit across; it was round like a pillar, a cubit and a half across; it had designs cut on it; the sides were square, not round. 
The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high. 
The wheels were made like carriage-wheels, the rods on which they were fixed, the parts forming their edges, their rods and the middle points of them, were all formed out of liquid metal. 
And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of the base. 
And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high; 
In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round. 
All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form. 
And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one vessel was placed on every one of the ten bases. 
And he put the bases by the house, five on the right side and five on the left; and he put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house, to the east, facing south. 
And Hiram made the pots and spades and the basins. So Hiram came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of the Lord: 
The two pillars and the two cups of the crowns which were on the tops of the two pillars; and the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the tops of the pillars, 
And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for every network, covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars; 
And the ten bases, with the ten washing-vessels on them; 
And the great water-vessel, with the twelve oxen under it; 
And the pots and the spades and the basins; all the vessels which Hiram made for King Solomon, for the house of the Lord, were of polished brass. 
He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan. 
The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass. 
And Solomon had all the vessels made for use in the house of the Lord: the altar of gold and the gold table on which the holy bread was placed; 
And the supports for the lights, five on the right side and five on the left before the inmost room, of clear gold; and the flowers and the lights and all the instruments of gold; 
And the cups and the scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, all of gold; and the pins on which the doors were turned, the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and the doors of the Temple, all of gold. 
So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the holy things which David his father had given, the silver and the gold and all the vessels, and put them in the store-houses of the house of the Lord. 

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