gold fitted upon the carved work.
36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:
38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which isthe eighth month, was the house
finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven
years in building it.
1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof wasan hundred cubits,
and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of
cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3 And it wascovered with cedar above upon the beams, that layon forty five pillars, fifteen in
a row.
4 And there werewindows inthree rows, and light wasagainst light inthree ranks.
5 And all the doors and posts weresquare, with the windows: and light wasagainst light in
three ranks.
6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof wasfifty cubits, and the breadth thereof
thirty cubits: and the porch wasbefore them: and the otherpillars and the thick beam were
before them.
7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, eventhe porch of judgment: and it
wascovered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8 And his house where he dwelt hadanother court within the porch, whichwas of the like work.
Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this
porch.
9 All these were ofcostly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with
saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and soon the outside
toward the great court.
10 And the foundation was ofcostly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones
of eight cubits.
11 And above werecostly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
12 And the great court round about waswith three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar
beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
14 He wasa widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father wasa man of Tyre, a worker in
brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in
brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits
did compass either of them about.
16 And he made two chapiters ofmolten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of
the one chapiter wasfive cubits, and the height of the other chapiter wasfive cubits:
17 Andnets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which wereupon the
top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the
chapiters that wereupon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
19 And the chapiters that wereupon the top of the pillars wereof lily work in the porch, four
cubits.
20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranatesalso above, over against the belly
which wasby the network: and the pomegranates weretwo hundred in rows round about upon the
other chapiter.
21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called

the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars waslily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it wasround all about,
and his height wasfive cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about there wereknops compassing it, ten in a cubit,
compassing the sea round about: the knops werecast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 It stood upon 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
setabove upon them, and all their hinder parts wereinward.
26 And it wasan hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup,
with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits wasthe length of one base, and four cubits the
breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
28 And the work of the bases wason this manner: they had borders, and the borders were
between the ledges:
29 And on the borders that werebetween the ledges werelions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon
the ledges there wasa base above: and beneath the lions and oxen werecertain additions made
of thin work.
30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had
undersetters: under the laver wereundersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above wasa cubit: but the mouth thereof was
round afterthe work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were
gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
32 And under the borders werefour wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joinedto the
base: and the height of a wheel wasa cubit and half a cubit.
33 And the work of the wheels waslike the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their
naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, wereall molten.
34 And there werefour undersetters to the four corners of one base: andthe undersetters were
of the very base itself.
35 And in the top of the base was therea round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of
the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof wereof the same.
36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims,
lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
37 After this mannerhe made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, andone
size.
38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: andevery laver was four
cubits: andupon every one of the ten bases one laver.
39 And he put five bases 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 over against the south.
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing
all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
41 The two pillars, and the twobowls of the chapiters that wereon the top of the two pillars;
and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which wereupon the top of the
pillars;
42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, eventwo rows of pomegranates for
one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that wereupon the pillars;
43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to

king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were ofbright brass.
46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and
Zarthan.
47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was
the weight of the brass found out.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertainedunto the house of the LORD: the altar of
gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the
oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs ofgold,
50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers ofpure
gold; and the hinges ofgold, bothfor the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, andfor
the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon
brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; eventhe silver, and the gold, and the
vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the
fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the
ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which isZion.
2 And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month
Ethanim, which isthe seventh month.
3 And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
4 And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the
holy vessels that werein the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
5 And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were
with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for
multitude.
6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle
of the house, to the most holy place, evenunder the wings of the cherubims.
7 For the cherubims spread forth theirtwo wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims
covered the ark and the staves thereof above.
8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place
before the oracle, and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
9 There wasnothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb,
when the LORD made a covenantwith the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of
Egypt.
10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled
the house of the LORD,
11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the
LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
12 Then spake Solomon, The LORD said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.
13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
14 And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the congregation of Israel: (and all the
congregation of Israel stood;)
15 And he said, Blessed bethe LORD God of Israel, which spake with his mouth unto David my
father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,
16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all
the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be
over my people Israel.
17 And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the LORD God of