First Kings 7:9-17

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.