First Kings 7:5-20

⁵All the doors and posts were made square with beams, and window was opposite window in three sets.

⁶There was a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front and pillars and a roof.

⁷Solomon built the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of justice. It was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

⁸Solomon's house in which he was to live, in another courtyard within the palace grounds, was similarly designed. He also built a house like this for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken as a wife.

⁹These buildings were adorned with costly hewn stones, precisely measured and cut with a saw and smoothed on all sides. These stones were used from the foundation to the stones on top, and also on the outside to the great court.

¹⁰The foundation was constructed with very large, costly stones of eight and ten cubits in length.

¹¹Above were costly hewn stones precisely cut to size, and cedar beams.

¹²The great courtyard surrounding the palace had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams like the courtyard of the temple of Yahweh and the temple portico.

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.