First Kings 7:13-35

¹³King Solomon sent for Huram and brought him from Tyre.

¹⁴Huram was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali; his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill to do great work with bronze. He came to King Solomon to work with bronze for the king.

¹⁵Huram fashioned the two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

¹⁶He made two capitals of polished bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of each capital was five cubits.

¹⁷Checker latticework and wreaths of chain work for the capitals decorated the top of the pillars, seven for each capital.

¹⁸So Huram made two rows of pomegranates around the top of each pillar to decorate their capitals.

¹⁹The capitals on the tops of the portico pillars were decorated with lilies, four cubits high.

²⁰The capitals on these two pillars also included, close to their very top, two hundred pomegranates in rows all around.

²¹He raised up the pillars at the temple portico. The pillar on the right was named Jakin, and the pillar on the left was named Boaz.

²²On the top of the pillars were decorations like lilies. The fashioning of the pillars was done in this way.

²³Huram made the round sea of cast metal, ten cubits from brim to brim. Its height was five cubits, and the sea was thirty cubits in circumference.

²⁴Under the brim encircling the sea were gourds, ten in each cubit, cast in one piece with “The Sea,” when that basin was cast.

²⁵“The Sea” stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east. “The Sea” was set on top of them, and all their hindquarters were toward the inside.

²⁶The sea was as thick as the width of a hand, and its brim was forged like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. The sea held two thousand baths of water.

²⁷Huram made the ten stands of bronze. Each stand was four cubits long and four cubits wide, and the height was three cubits.

²⁸The work of the stands was like this. They had panels that stood between frames,

²⁹and on the panels and on the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hammered work.

³⁰Every stand had four bronze wheels and axles, and its four corners had supports beneath for the basin. The supports were cast with wreaths on the side of each one.

³¹The opening was round like a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide, and was within a crown that rose up a cubit. On the opening were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.

³²The four wheels were underneath the panels, and the axles of the wheels and their housings were in the stand. The height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

³³The wheels were forged like chariot wheels. Their housings, rims, spokes, and hubs were all cast metal.

³⁴There were four handles at the four corners of each stand, forged into the stand itself.

³⁵In the top of the stands there was a round band half a cubit deep, and on the top of the stand its supports and panels were attached.