1 Kings 7:13–47

And king Solomon sent and fetched ↦Hiram out of Tyre.⇇

He was a widow's son of the tribe of ↦Naphtali, and ↦his father was a 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.⇇

For he cast ↦two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.⇇

And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:⇉⇇

And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.⇉⇇

And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.⇉⇇

And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of ↦lily work in the porch, four cubits.⇇

And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: ↦and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.⇇

↦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.⇇

And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.⇇

And ↦he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.⇉⇇

And under the brim of it round about there were ↦knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, ↦compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.⇇

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 set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.⇉⇇

And it was ↦an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, ↦with flowers of lilies: it contained ↦two thousand baths.⇇

And he made ↦ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.⇇

And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:⇇

And on the borders that were between the ledges were ↦lions, oxen, and ↦cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were ↦certain additions made of thin work.⇇

And every base had four brasen ↦wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.⇇

And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.⇇

And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.⇇

And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.⇉⇇

And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.⇇

And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.⇇

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.⇇

After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.⇇

Then made he ↦ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.⇇

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.⇇

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:⇇

The ↦two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the ↦two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;⇇

And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;⇇

And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;⇇

And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;⇇

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 of bright brass.⇇

In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between ↦Succoth and ↦Zarthan.⇉⇇

And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, ↦because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass ↦found out.⇇