Thematic Bible
1 Kings 7:1 (show verse)
Solomon completed his entire palace complex after 13 years of construction.
1 Kings 7:2 (show verse)
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars.
1 Kings 7:3 (show verse)
It was paneled above with cedar at the top of the chambers that rested on 45 pillars, 15 per row.
1 Kings 7:4 (show verse)
There were three rows of window frames, facing each other in three tiers.
1 Kings 7:5 (show verse)
All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers.
1 Kings 7:6 (show verse)
He made the hall of pillars 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. A portico was in front of the pillars, and a canopy with pillars was in front of them.
1 Kings 7:7 (show verse)
He made the Hall of the Throne where he would judge—the Hall of Judgment. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.
1 Kings 7:8 (show verse)
Solomon’s own palace where he would live, in the other courtyard behind the hall, was of similar construction. And he made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, his wife.
1 Kings 7:9 (show verse)
All of these buildings were of costly stones, cut to size and sawed with saws on the inner and outer surfaces, from foundation to coping and from the outside to the great courtyard.
1 Kings 7:10 (show verse)
The foundation was made of large, costly stones 12 and 15 feet long.
1 Kings 7:11 (show verse)
Above were also costly stones, cut to size, as well as cedar wood.
1 Kings 7:12 (show verse)
Around the great courtyard, as well as the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and the portico of the temple, were three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.
1 Kings 7:13 (show verse)
King Solomon had Hiram brought from Tyre.
1 Kings 7:14 (show verse)
He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze craftsman. Hiram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge to do every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
1 Kings 7:15 (show verse)
He cast two hollow bronze pillars: each 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference.
1 Kings 7:16 (show verse)
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars; 7½ feet was the height of the first capital, and 7½ feet was also the height of the second capital.
1 Kings 7:17 (show verse)
The capitals on top of the pillars had gratings of latticework, wreaths made of chainwork—seven for the first capital and seven for the second.
1 Kings 7:18 (show verse)
He made the pillars with two encircling rows of pomegranates on the one grating to cover the capital on top; he did the same for the second capital.
1 Kings 7:19 (show verse)
And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, six feet high.
1 Kings 7:20 (show verse)
The capitals on the two pillars were also immediately above the rounded surface next to the grating, and 200 pomegranates were in rows encircling each capital.
1 Kings 7:21 (show verse)
He set up the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin; then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.
1 Kings 7:22 (show verse)
The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. Then the work of the pillars was completed.
1 Kings 7:23 (show verse)
He made the cast metal reservoir, 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference.
1 Kings 7:24 (show verse)
Ornamental gourds encircled it below the brim, 10 every half yard, completely encircling the reservoir. The gourds were cast in two rows when the reservoir was cast.
1 Kings 7:25 (show verse)
It stood on 12 oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The reservoir was on top of them and all their hindquarters were toward the center.
1 Kings 7:26 (show verse)
The reservoir was three inches thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom. It held 11,000 gallons.
1 Kings 7:27 (show verse)
Then he made 10 bronze water carts. Each water cart was six feet long, six feet wide, and 4½ feet high.
1 Kings 7:28 (show verse)
This was the design of the carts: They had frames; the frames were between the cross-pieces,
1 Kings 7:29 (show verse)
and on the frames between the cross-pieces were lions, oxen, and cherubim. On the cross-pieces there was a pedestal above, and below the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
1 Kings 7:30 (show verse)
Each cart had four bronze wheels with bronze axles. Underneath the four corners of the basin were cast supports, each next to a wreath.
1 Kings 7:31 (show verse)
And the water cart’s opening inside the crown on top was 18 inches wide. The opening was round, made as a pedestal 27 inches wide. On it were carvings, but their frames were square, not round.
1 Kings 7:32 (show verse)
There were four wheels under the frames, and the wheel axles were part of the water cart; each wheel was 27 inches tall.
1 Kings 7:33 (show verse)
The wheels’ design was similar to that of chariot wheels: their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.
1 Kings 7:34 (show verse)
Four supports were at the four corners of each water cart; each support was one piece with the water cart.
1 Kings 7:35 (show verse)
At the top of the cart was a band nine inches high encircling it; also, at the top of the cart, its braces and its frames were one piece with it.
1 Kings 7:36 (show verse)
He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the plates of its braces and on its frames, wherever each had space, with encircling wreaths.
1 Kings 7:37 (show verse)
In this way he made the 10 water carts using the same casting, dimensions, and shape for all of them.
1 Kings 7:38 (show verse)
Then he made 10 bronze basins—each basin holding 220 gallons and each was six feet wide—one basin for each of the 10 water carts.
1 Kings 7:39 (show verse)
He set five water carts on the right side of the temple and five on the left side. He put the reservoir near the right side of the temple toward the southeast.
1 Kings 7:40 (show verse)
Then Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the sprinkling basins.
So Hiram finished all the work that he was doing for King Solomon on the Lord’s temple:
So Hiram finished all the work that he was doing for King Solomon on the Lord’s temple:
1 Kings 7:41 (show verse)
two pillars; bowls for the capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two gratings for covering both bowls of the capitals that were on top of the pillars;
1 Kings 7:42 (show verse)
the 400 pomegranates for the two gratings (two rows of pomegranates for each grating covering both capitals’ bowls on top of the pillars);
1 Kings 7:43 (show verse)
the 10 water carts; the 10 basins on the water carts;
1 Kings 7:44 (show verse)
the reservoir; the 12 oxen underneath the reservoir;
1 Kings 7:45 (show verse)
and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling basins. All the utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon at the Lord’s temple were made of burnished bronze.
1 Kings 7:46 (show verse)
The king had them cast in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.
1 Kings 7:47 (show verse)
Solomon left all the utensils unweighed because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
1 Kings 7:48 (show verse)
Solomon also made all the equipment in the Lord’s temple: the gold altar; the gold table that the bread of the Presence was placed on;
1 Kings 7:49 (show verse)
the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;
1 Kings 7:50 (show verse)
the pure gold ceremonial bowls, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, ladles, and firepans; and the gold hinges for the doors of the inner temple (that is, the most holy place) and for the doors of the temple sanctuary.
1 Kings 7:51 (show verse)
So all the work King Solomon did in the Lord’s temple was completed. Then Solomon brought in the consecrated things of his father David—the silver, the gold, and the utensils—and put them in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.