1 Kings 7:9-17

⁹All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

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.