The Koine Bible

And King Solomon sent and took Hiram from Tyre.

the son of a widow woman, and he also was from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a Tyrian man, a bronze worker, and filled with skill and understanding and knowledge to do every work in bronze, and he was brought to King Solomon, and he made all the works

And he cast the two pillars for the porch of the house; eighteen cubits was the height of the pillar, and the circumference of it was fourteen cubits; it surrounded him, and the thickness of the pillar was four fingers. The capitals, and so the second pillar.

And he made two capitals, to be put on the tops of the pillars, cast bronze, five cubits the height of the one capital and five cubits the height of the second capital

And he made two nets to cover the overlay of the pillars, and a net for the one overlay and a net for the second overlay

and hanging work, two rows of bronze pomegranates, interwoven, hanging work, row upon row; and so he made for the second capitan

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 Baaz

And on the capitals of the pillars was lily work, according to the porch, of four cubits.

and a lintel on both the pillars, and above the side walls, a facing, the lintel, in thickness

And he made the sea, ten cubits from its rim to its rim, round all around, the same; five cubits was its height, and thirty and three cubits were gathered around it.

And supports underneath its rim all around were encircling it, ten in a cubit all around, to lift up the sea.

And its rim was like the work of a cup’s rim, a lily blossom, and its thickness was a handbreadth.

and twelve oxen beneath the sea, the three looking toward the north and the three looking toward the sea and the three looking toward the south and the three looking toward the east, and all the hind parts toward the house, and the sea was upon them above

And he made ten bronze bases; five cubits was the length of the one base, and four cubits was its width, and six in a cubit was its height.

And this was the work of the stands: shut in with them, and shut in between the projections.

And upon their closures, between the projections, lions and oxen and cherubim; and upon the projections likewise, and above and beneath the lions and the oxen, wreaths, work of descent

And four bronze wheels for the one base, and the bronze fittings, and its four parts, shoulders underneath the lavers

And there were hands in the wheels in the stands, and the height of the one wheel was a cubit and a half.

And the work of the wheels was the work of chariot wheels; their hands and their backs and their workmanship, all of them were cast.

The four shoulders were on the four corners of the one base; its shoulders were from the base itself.

And upon the top of the supports was a half-cubit in size, round all around on the top of the supports; and the opening of its hands and its frames, and it was opened at the tops of its hands.

And its panels were cherubim and lions and palm trees, standing one after another, each opposite its face, inside, and the things round about it.

And he made all the ten stands according to it, one arrangement and one measure for all of them.

And he made ten bronze supports, forty baths, holding the one support by measure; the one support was on the one base, to the ten bases

And he set the ten stands, five from the shoulder of the house on the right and five from the shoulder of the house on the left; and the sea was from the shoulder of the house on the right, toward the east, from the side of the south.

And Hiram made the pots and the firepans and the bowls, and Hiram finished making all the works that he made for King Solomon in the house of the Lord.

two pillars, and the twisted work on the heads of the pillars, two, and the two nets for covering both the twisted work of the carvings that were on the pillars

and the pomegranates were four hundred for both the networks, two rows of pomegranates for the one network, to cover both the wreaths on both the pillars

and the ten bases and the ten pot-rests upon the bases

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

and the pots and the hearths and the bowls and all the vessels that Hiram made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord, and the pillars, forty-eight, of the house of the king and of the house of the Lord; all the works of the king that Hiram made, bronze throughout.

There was no weighing of the bronze that he made all these works of; from the abundance exceedingly, there was no limit to the weight of the bronze.

in the circuit of the Jordan the king melted them in the thickness of the land, between Succoth and between Zarethan

And King Solomon gave the vessels which he made in the house of the Lord: the golden altar and the table on which were the loaves of the offering, golden.

and the lampstands, five on the right and five on the left, facing the debir, of gold, with their lamps and the lamps and the tongs, of gold

and the thresholds and the nails and the bowls and the goblets and the golden incense pans, closed up, and the doorframes of the doors of the innermost house, the holy of holies, and the doors of the house of the temple, golden ones

And all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was completed, and Solomon brought in the holy things of David his father and all the holy things of Solomon, the silver and the gold and the vessels; he gave them into the treasuries of the house of the Lord.

And Solomon built his house in thirteen years.

And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon, a hundred cubits its length, and fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, and with three rows of cedar pillars, and cedar crossbeams for the pillars

And he paneled the house above on the sides of the pillars, and the number of the pillars was forty-five, and fifteen in a row.

and three roofs and space upon space threefold

And all the doorways and the enclosures were square, darkened, and from the doorway to the door, threefold.

And the porch of the pillars was fifty cubits in length and thirty in breadth, set in rows, the porch before them, and pillars and thickness before its face for the porches.

and the porch of the thrones where he will judge, there is the porch of judgment

and the house for him in which he shall sit there, one court, unfolding with these according to this work, and the house for the daughter of Pharaoh whom Solomon took, according to this porch, this one

all these things were carved of precious stones, from the foundations to the cornices, both inside and outside, to the great court

the foundation set with precious stones, great stones of ten cubits and of eight cubits

and on the top with precious stones according to measure, of hewn stones, and with cedars

of the great court, around, three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cedar carved work

And Solomon finished all his house.