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1 Kings 7

Solomon spends thirteen years building his palace complex, including the house of the forest of Lebanon and a house for Pharaoh’s daughter. The narrative then returns to the temple and introduces Hiram, a skilled brass worker from Tyre. He makes the pillars Jachin and Boaz, the molten sea, bases, lavers, and many vessels. Solomon finally brings in the treasures David had dedicated.

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Verses 1–12Solomon builds his own house and other royal buildings Verses 13–22Hiram makes the two brass pillars Verses 23–26Hiram makes the molten sea Verses 27–39Ten bases and lavers are made Verses 40–47Hiram finishes the brass work for the temple Verses 48–51Solomon makes the golden furnishings and brings in the dedicated treasures

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1But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and…2He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon;…3And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams,…4And there were windows in three rows, and light was…5And all the doors and posts were square, with the…6And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof…7Then he made a porch for the throne where he…8And his house where he dwelt had another court within…9All these were of costly stones, according to the measures…10And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones,…11And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed…12And the great court round about was with three rows…13And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.14He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali,…15For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits…16And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set…17And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work,…18And he made the pillars, and two rows round about…19And the chapiters that were upon the top of the…20And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also…21And he set up the pillars in the porch of…22And upon the top of the pillars was lily work:…23And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the…24And under the brim of it round about there were…25It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north,…26And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim…27And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was…28And the work of the bases was on this manner:…29And on the borders that were between the ledges were…30And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of…31And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above…32And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees…33And the work of the wheels was like the work…34And there were four undersetters to the four corners of…35And in the top of the base was there a…36For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on…37After this manner he made the ten bases: all of…38Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained…39And he put five bases on the right side of…40And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the…41The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters…42And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two…43And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;44And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;45And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and…46In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them,…47And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were…48And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the…49And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right…50And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and…51So was ended all the work that king Solomon made…