1Solomon's palace took thirteen years to build.
2Forest Hall was the largest room in the palace. It was one hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high, and was lined with cedar from Lebanon. It had four rows of cedar pillars, fifteen in a row, and they held up forty-five cedar beams. The ceiling was covered with cedar.
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4Three rows of windows on each side faced each other,
5and there were three doors on each side near the front of the hall.
6Pillar Hall was seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide. A covered porch supported by pillars went all the way across the front of the hall.
7Solomon's throne was in Justice Hall, where he judged cases. This hall was completely lined with cedar.
8The section of the palace where Solomon lived was behind Justice Hall and looked exactly like it. He had a similar place built for his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt.
9From the foundation all the way to the top, these buildings and the courtyard were made out of the best stones carefully cut to size, then smoothed on every side with saws.
10The foundation stones were huge, good stones--some of them fifteen feet long and others twelve feet long.
11The cedar beams and other stones that had been cut to size were on top of these foundation stones.
12The walls around the palace courtyard were made out of three layers of cut stones with one layer of cedar beams, just like the front porch and the inner courtyard of the temple.
13Hiram was a skilled bronze worker from the city of Tyre. His father was now dead, but he also had been a bronze worker from Tyre, and his mother was from the tribe of Naphtali. King Solomon asked Hiram to come to Jerusalem and make the bronze furnishings to use for worship in the LORD's temple, and he agreed to do it.
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15Hiram made two bronze columns twenty-seven feet tall and about six feet across.
16For the top of each column, he also made a bronze cap seven and a half feet high.
17The caps were decorated with seven rows of designs that looked like chains,
18with two rows of designs that looked like pomegranates.
19The caps for the columns of the porch were six feet high and were shaped like lilies.
20The chain designs on the caps were right above the rounded tops of the two columns, and there were two hundred pomegranates in rows around each cap.
21Hiram placed the two columns on each side of the main door of the temple. The column on the south side was called Jachin, and the one on the north was called Boaz.
22The lily-shaped caps were on top of the columns. This completed the work on the columns.
23Hiram also made a large bowl called the Sea. It was seven and a half feet deep, about fifteen feet across, and forty-five feet around.
24Two rows of bronze gourds were around the outer edge of the bowl, ten gourds to every eighteen inches.
25The bowl itself sat on top of twelve bronze bulls with three bulls facing outward in each of four directions.
26The sides of the bowl were four inches thick, and its rim was like a cup that curved outward like flower petals. The bowl held about eleven thousand gallons.
27Hiram made ten movable bronze stands, each one four and a half feet high, six feet long, and six feet wide.
28The sides were made with panels attached to frames decorated with flower designs. The panels themselves were decorated with figures of lions, bulls, and winged creatures.
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30Each stand had four bronze wheels and axles and a round frame twenty-seven inches across, held up by four supports eighteen inches high. A small bowl rested in the frame. The supports were decorated with flower designs, and the frame with carvings. The side panels of the stands were square,
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32and the wheels and axles were underneath them. The wheels were about twenty-seven inches high
33and looked like chariot wheels. The axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were made out of bronze.
34Around the top of each stand was a nine-inch strip, and there were four braces attached to the corners of each stand. The panels and the supports were attached to the stands,
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36and the stands were decorated with flower designs and figures of lions, palm trees, and winged creatures.
37Hiram made the ten bronze stands from the same mold, so they were exactly the same size and shape.
38Hiram also made ten small bronze bowls, one for each stand. The bowls were six feet across and could hold about two hundred thirty gallons.
39He put five stands on the south side of the temple, five stands on the north side, and the large bowl at the southeast corner of the temple.
40Hiram made pans for hot ashes, and also shovels and sprinkling bowls. This is a list of the bronze items that Hiram made for the LORD's temple:
41two columns; two bowl-shaped caps for the tops of the columns; two chain designs on the caps;
42four hundred pomegranates for the chain designs;
43ten movable stands; ten small bowls for the stands;
44a large bowl; twelve bulls that held up the bowl;
45pans for hot ashes, and also shovels and sprinkling bowls. Hiram made these bronze things for Solomon
46near the Jordan River between Succoth and Zarethan by pouring melted bronze into clay molds.
47There were so many bronze things that Solomon never bothered to weigh them, and no one ever knew how much bronze was used.
48Solomon gave orders to make the following temple furnishings out of gold: the altar; the table that held the sacred loaves of bread;
49ten lampstands that went in front of the most holy place; flower designs; lamps and tongs;
50cups, lamp snuffers, and small sprinkling bowls; dishes for incense; fire pans; and the hinges for the doors to the most holy place and the main room of the temple.
51After the LORD's temple was finished, Solomon put into its storage rooms everything that his father David had dedicated to the LORD, including the gold and the silver.
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