Kings III 7:13-44

¹³And king Solomon sent, and took Chiram out of Tyre,

¹⁴the son of a widow woman; and he was of the tribe of Nephthalim, and his father was a Tyrian; a worker in brass, and accomplished in are and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought all the works.

¹⁵And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the house: eighteen cubits was the height of each pillar, and a circumference of fourteen cubits encompassed it, even the thickness of the pillar: the flutings were four fingers wide, and thus was the other pillar formed.

¹⁶And he made two molten chapiters to put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits was the height of one chapiter, and five cubits was the height of the other chapiter.

¹⁷And he made two ornaments of network to cover the chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter.

¹⁸And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, formed with network, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed the ornaments for the second chapiter. And he set up the pillars of the porch of the temple: and he set up the one pillar, and called its name Jachum: and he set up the second pillar, and called its name Boloz.

¹⁹And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits,

²⁰and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition equal to the chamber in width.

²³And he made the sea, ten cubits from one rim to the other, the same was completely circular round about: its height was five cubits, and its circumference thirty-three cubits.

²⁴And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round;

²⁵And there were twelve oxen under the sea: three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts were inward, and the sea was above upon them.

²⁶and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span.

²⁷And he made ten brazen bases: five cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and its height was six cubits.

²⁸And this work of the bases was formed with a border the them, and there was a border between the ledges.

²⁹And upon their borders between the projection were lions, and oxen, and cherubs: and on the projections, even so above, and also below were the places of lions and oxen, hanging work.

³⁰And there were four brazen wheels to one base; and there were brazen bases, and their four sides answering to them, side pieces under the bases.

³¹And there were axles in the wheels under the base.

³²And the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half.

³³And the work of the wheels was as the work of chariot wheels: their axles, and their felloes, and the rest of their work, were all molten.

³⁴The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders were formed of the base.

³⁵And on the top of the base half a cubit was the size of it, there was a circle on the top of the base, and there was the top of its spaces and its borders: and it was open at the top of its spaces.

³⁶And its borders were cherubs, and lions, and palm-trees, upright, each was joined in front and within and round about.

³⁷According to the same form he made all the ten bases, even one order and one measure to all.

³⁸And he made ten brazen lavers, each laver containing forty baths, and measuring four cubits, each laver placed on a several base throughout the ten bases.

³⁹And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.

⁴⁰And Chiram made the caldrons, and the pans, and the bowls; and Chiram finished making all the works that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of the Lord:

⁴¹two pillars and the wreathen works of the pillars on the heads of the two pillars; and the two networks to cover both the wreathen works of the flutings that were upon the pillars.

⁴²The four hundred pomegranates for both the networks, two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover both the wreathen works of the bases belonging to both pillars.

⁴³And the ten bases, and the ten lavers upon the bases.

⁴⁴And one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea.