1 Kings 7:10-35

¹⁰And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.

¹¹Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

¹²The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

¹³Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.

¹⁴He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.

¹⁵He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same.

¹⁶And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the crowns were five cubits high.

¹⁷There were nets of open-work for the crowns on the tops of the pillars, a net of open-work for one and a net of open-work for the other.

¹⁸And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way.

¹⁹The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across.

²⁰And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown.

²¹He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.

²²The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete.

²³And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thirty cubits round.

²⁴And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made together with it from liquid metal.

²⁵It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them facing to the north, three to the west, three to the south, and three to the east; the vessel was resting on top of them.

²⁶It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.

²⁷And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

²⁸And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework;

²⁹And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the frame; and over and under the lions and the oxen and the winged ones were steps.

³⁰Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates under them; the angle-plates under the base were of metal, and there were ornaments at the side of every one.

³¹The mouth of it inside the angle-plate was one cubit across; it was round like a pillar, a cubit and a half across; it had designs cut on it; the sides were square, not round.

³²The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high.

³³The wheels were made like carriage-wheels, the rods on which they were fixed, the parts forming their edges, their rods and the middle points of them, were all formed out of liquid metal.

³⁴And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of the base.

³⁵And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high;