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.

1 Salomão edificou também a sua casa, levando treze anos para acabá-la.

2 Edificou ainda a casa do bosque de Líbano, de cem côvados de comprimento, cinqüenta de largura e trinta de altura, sobre quatro ordens de colunas de cedros, e vigas de cedro sobre as colunas.

3 E por cima estava coberta de cedro sobre as câmaras, que estavam sobre quarenta e cinco colunas, quinze em cada ordem.

4 E havia três ordens de janelas, e uma janela estava defronte da outra janela, em três fileiras.

5 Todas as portas e esquadrias eram quadradas; e uma janela estava defronte da outra, em três fileiras.

6 Depois fez um pórtico de colunas, de cinqüenta côvados de comprimento e trinta de largura; e defronte dele outro pórtico, com suas respectivas colunas e degraus.

7 Também fez o pórtico para o trono onde julgava, isto é, o pórtico do juízo, o qual era coberto de cedro desde o soalho até o teto.

8 E em sua casa, em que morava, havia outro átrio por dentro do pórtico, de obra semelhante à deste; também para a filha de Faraó, que ele tomara por mulher, fez uma casa semelhante àquele pórtico.

9 Todas estas casas eram de pedras de grande preço, cortadas sob medida, tendo as suas faces por dentro e por fora serradas à serra; e isto desde o fundamento até as beiras do teto, e por fora até o grande átrio.

10 Os fundamentos eram de pedras de grande preço, pedras grandes, de dez e de oito côvados,

11 e por cima delas havia pedras de grande preço, lavradas sob medida, e madeira de cedro.

12 O átrio grande tinha em redor três ordens de pedras lavradas, com uma ordem de vigas de cedro; assim era também o átrio interior da casa do Senhor e o pórtico da casa.

13 O rei Salomão mandou trazer de Tiro a Hirão.

14 Era ele filho de uma viúva, da tribo de Naftali, e fora seu pai um homem de Tiro, que trabalhava em bronze; ele era cheio de sabedoria, de entendimento e de ciência para fazer toda sorte de obras de bronze. Este veio ter com o rei Salomão, e executou todas as suas obras.

15 Formou as duas colunas de bronze; a altura de cada coluna era de dezoito côvados; e um fio de doze côvados era a medida da circunferência de cada uma das colunas;

16 também fez dois capitéis de bronze fundido para pôr sobre o alto das colunas; de cinco côvados era a altura dum capitel, e de cinco côvados também a altura do outro.

17 Havia redes de malha, e grinaldas entrelaçadas, para os capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas: sete para um capitel e sete para o outro.

18 Assim fez as colunas; e havia duas fileiras de romãs em redor sobre uma rede, para cobrir os capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas; assim fez com um e outro capitel.

19 Os capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas, no pórtico, figuravam lírios, e eram de quatro côvados.

20 Os capitéis, pois, sobre as duas colunas estavam também justamente em cima do bojo que estava junto à rede; e havia duzentas romãs, em fileiras em redor, sobre um e outro capitel.

21 Depois levantou as colunas no pórtico do templo; levantando a coluna direita, pôs-lhe o nome de Jaquim; e levantando a coluna esquerda, pôs-lhe o nome de Boaz.

22 Sobre o alto das colunas estava a obra de lírios. E assim se acabou a obra das colunas.

23 Fez também o mar de fundição; era redondo e media dez côvados duma borda à outra, cinco côvados de altura e trinta de circunferência.

24 Por baixo da sua borda em redor havia betões que o cingiam, dez em cada côvado, cercando aquele mar em redor; duas eram as fileiras destes botões, fundidas juntamente com o mar.

25 E 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; e o mar descansava sobre eles, e as partes posteriores deles estavam para a banda de dentro.

26 A sua grossura era de três polegadas, e a borda era como a de um copo, como flor de lírio; ele levava dois mil batos.

27 Fez também as dez bases de bronze; cada uma tinha quatro côvados de comprimento, quatro de largura e três de altura.

28 E a estrutura das bases era esta: tinham elas almofadas, as quais estavam entre as junturas;

29 e sobre as almofadas que estavam entre as junturas havia leões, bois, e querubins, bem como os havia sobre as junturas em cima; e debaixo dos leões e dos bois havia grinaldas pendentes.

30 Cada base tinha quatro rodas de bronze, e eixos de bronze; e os seus quatro cantos tinham suportes; debaixo da pia estavam estes suportes de fundição, tendo eles grinaldas de cada lado.

31 A sua boca, dentro da coroa, e em cima, era de um côvado; e era redonda segundo a obra dum pedestal, de côvado e meio; e também sobre a sua boca havia entalhes, e as suas almofadas eram quadradas, não redondas.

32 As quatro rodas estavam debaixo das almofadas, e os seus eixos estavam na base; e era a altura de cada roda de côvado e meio.

33 O feitio das rodas era como o de uma roda de carro; seus eixos, suas cambas, seus raios e seus cubos, todos eram fundidos.

34 Havia quatro suportes aos quatro cantos de cada base, os quais faziam parte da própria base.

35 No alto de cada base havia um cinto redondo, de meio côvado de altura; também sobre o topo de cada base havia esteios e almofadas que faziam parte dela.

36 E nas placas dos seus esteios e nas suas almofadas lavrou querubins, leões e palmas, segundo o espaço que havia em cada uma, com grinaldas em redor.

37 Deste modo fez as dez bases: todas com a mesma fundição, a mesma medida e o mesmo entalhe.

38 Também fez dez pias de bronze; em cada uma cabiam quarenta batos, e cada pia era de quatro côvados; e cada uma delas estava sobre uma das dez bases.

39 E pôs cinco bases à direita da casa, e cinco à esquerda; porém o mar pôs ao lado direito da casa para a banda do oriente, na direção do sul.

40 Hirão fez também as caldeiras, as pás e as bacias; assim acabou de fazer toda a obra que executou para o rei Salomão, para a casa do Senhor,

41 a saber: as duas colunas, os globos dos capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas, e as duas redes para cobrir os dois globos dos capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas,

42 e as quatrocentas romãs para as duas redes, a saber, duas carreiras de romãs para cada rede, para cobrirem os dois globos dos capitéis que estavam em cima das colunas;

43 as dez bases, e as dez pias sobre as bases;

44 o mar, e os doze bois debaixo do mesmo;

45 as caldeiras, as pás e as bacias; todos estes objetos que Hirão fez para o rei Salomão, para a casa do Senhor, eram de bronze polido.

46 O rei os fez fundir na planície do Jordão, num terreno argiloso que havia entre Sucote e Zaretã.

47 E Salomão deixou de pesar esses objetos devido ao seu excessivo número; não se averiguou o peso do bronze.

48 Também fez Salomão todos os utensílios para a casa do Senhor: o altar de ouro, e a mesa de ouro, sobre a qual estavam os pães da proposição;

49 os castiçais, cinco à direita e cinco esquerda, diante do oráculo, de ouro puro; as flores, as lâmpadas e as tenazes, também de ouro;

50 e as taças, as espevitadeiras, as bacias, as colheres e os braseiros, de ouro puro; e os gonzos para as portas da casa interior, para o lugar santíssimo, e os das portas da casa, isto é, do templo, também de ouro.

51 Assim se acabou toda a obra que o rei Salomão fez para a casa do Senhor. Então trouxe Salomão as coisas que seu pai Davi tinha consagrado, a saber, a prata, o ouro e os vasos; e os depositou nos tesouros da casa do senhor.