st Kings _Chapter 7

Solomon built a palace for himself, which took thirteen years to complete.

He also built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon, one hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams on them.

It is covered with cedar wood, with fifteen pillars in each row, totaling forty-five.

There are three layers of windows, facing each other.

All door frames are made of thick wood with three layers of windows facing each other.

And he built a porch with pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide. In front of this corridor, there is a corridor with pillars and steps outside.

Build another corridor with a seat for judgment, which is covered from the ground to the top with cedar wood.

There is a palace where Solomon lived in the backyard of the corridor. The work is the same as this one. Solomon also built a palace for the daughter of Pharaoh whom he had married, using the same method as this porch.

The stones used to build all of this are precious, chiseled according to size, sawn inside and outside. From the foundation to the eaves, from the outside to the courtyard, it is like this.

The foundation is a precious large stone, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.

There is cedar wood and precious stones chiseled according to size on it.

There are three layers of chiseled stones and one layer of cedar wood around the courtyard, all in the style of the inner courtyard and temple corridors of the Lord’s temple.

King Solomon sent people to Tyre and summoned Huram.

He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was from Tyre, a coppersmith. Hulan is full of wisdom, intelligence, skills, and is skilled in all kinds of copper work. He came to King Solomon and did all that the king had to do.

He made two copper pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits round.

He also cast two pillars of copper and installed them on the pillars, each five cubits high.

There are decorated nets and twisted chains on the top of the columns, with seven on each top.

There are two rows of pomegranates covering the top of the pillars around the net, and this is true for both pillars.

The top of the pillars in the corridor is four cubits in diameter, carved with lilies.

On the top of the two pillars, there are two rows of pomegranates surrounded by a net, with a total of two hundred in each row.

He erected two pillars in front of the hall corridor, with one on the right side and named it Yajin. Standing on the left, name it Boaz.

Lilies are carved on the top of the pillars. In this way, the work of making pillars is completed.

He also cast a round bronze sea, with a height of five cubits, a diameter of ten cubits, and a circumference of thirty cubits.

Underneath the seaside, there are patterns of wild melons around. Ten melons per elbow, two rows in total, were cast during the casting of the sea.

There are twelve copper cows carrying the sea, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea is on the cow, and the tail of the cow faces inward.

The sea is thick in one palm, with a rim like the edge of a cup, and like a lily flower, it can hold two thousand bars.

He made ten pots of copper, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

The method of making a seat is as follows: there are hearts on all four sides, and the hearts are within the edges,

There is a lion and an ox in the heart, and cherubim. There is a small seat on the side, and below lions and cows there are hanging necklaces.

Each pot holder has four copper wheels and copper shafts. On the four corners of the small seat, below the basin, there is a cast basin frame with wreaths on its sides.

The small seat is one cubit high, with a round mouth, resembling the style of a seat. It has a diameter of one and a half cubits, and there is carving on the mouth. The heart is square, not round.

Four wheels are below the center, with the axle connected to the seat, and each wheel is one and a half cubits high.

The style of the wheel is similar to that of a wheel. The shaft, rim, spoke, and hub are all cast.

Each seat has a basin frame at its four corners, which is cast together with the seat.

There is a circular frame on the seat, half an elbow high. There are supports and hearts on the seat, which are cast together with the seat.

Carving cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the support and heart, with wreaths around them.

The ten pots are all like this, with the same casting method, size, and style.

He also made ten pots of copper, each of which could hold forty bars. The diameter of the basin is four cubits, and one basin shall be placed on each of the ten.

Five are placed on the right side of the temple gate, and five are placed on the left side of the temple gate. And he placed the sea on the right side of the temple gate, which is to the south.

Hulan also made pots, shovels, and plates. So he completed all the work of the temple of the Lord for King Solomon.

What is built is two pillars and two spherical tops on the pillars. And two nets covering the top of the pillars.

And four hundred pomegranates, placed on two nets, with two rows in each net, covering the tops of two pillars like balls.

Ten seats and ten pots above them.

The sea and twelve cows under the sea.

Bowl, shovel, plate. All of these were made by Huram for King Solomon to make the temple of the Lord with shining copper,

It was cast in the plain of Jordan, between Succoth and Saradan, as ordered by the king, by borrowing clay.

All of this Solomon did not weigh. Due to numerous reasons, the weight of copper cannot be determined.

Solomon also made the golden altar in the temple of the Lord and the golden table for the shewbread.

The pure gold lampstands in front of the inner hall, five on the right and five on the left, along with the gold flowers, lamps, and wax trimmers on them,

With pure gold cups, plates, tweezers, spoons, fire cauldrons, as well as the most holy place, the door hinges of the inner hall, and the door hinges of the outer hall.

After completing all the work of the Lord’s temple, King Solomon brought the gold, silver, and utensils that his father David had consecrated, and placed them in the treasury of the Lord’s temple.