CHAP. VII.1 The building of the houses of Salomon. 15 The excellent
workemanship of Hiram in the pieces which he made for the
Temple.
1Bvt Salomon was building his owne house
note thirteene yeeres, and note finished all his
house.
2 He built also an house notecalled the forest
of Lebanon, an hundreth cubites long, and fiftie
cubites broad, and thirtie cubites hie, vpon foure
rowes of cedar pillars, and cedar beames were
layed vpon the pillars.
3 And it was couered aboue with cedar vpon
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The workemanship of the two pillars, & Sea for the Temple.
the beames, that lay on the fourtie and fiue pillars,
fifteene in a rowe.
4 And the windowes were in three rowes, &
windowe was note against windowe in three rankes.
5 And all the doores, and the side postes
with the windowes were foure square, and windowe
was ouer against windowe in three rankes.
6 And he made a porche of pillars fiftie cubites
long, and thirtie cubites broade, and the
porch was before note them, euen before them were
thirtie pillars.
7 ¶2; Then he made a porch note for the throne,
where he iudged, euen a porch of iudgement, and
it was sieled with cedar from pauement to pauement.
8 And in his house, where he dwelt, was an
other hall more inwarde then the porche which
was of the same worke. Also Salomon made an
house for Pharaohs daughter ( note whom he had
taken to wife) like vnto this porche.
9 All these were note of costly stones, hewed
by measure, and sawed with sawes within and
without, from the foundation vnto note the stones
of an note hand breadth, and on the outside to the
great court.
10 And the foundation was of costly stones,
and great stones, euen of stones of ten cubites,
and stones of eight cubites.
11noteAboue also were costly stones, squared by
rule, and boardes of cedar.
12 ¶2; And the great court round about was
&wt; three rowes of hewed stones, & a rowe of cedar
beames: note so was it to þe; inner court of the house
of the Lord, and to the porche of the house.
13 ¶2; Then King Salomon sent, and set one
Hiram out of note Tyrus.
14 He was a widowes sonne of the tribe of
Naphtali, his father being a man of Tyrus, and
wrought in brasse: note he was full of wisedome, and
vnderstanding, and knowledge to worke all maner
of worke in brasse: who came to King Salomon,
and wrought all his worke.
15 ¶2; For he cast two pillars of brasse: þe; height
of a pillar was eighteene cubites, and a threede of
twelue cubites did compasse note either of þe; pillars.
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16 And he made two note chapiters of molten
brasse to set on the tops of the pillars: the height
The workemanship of the two pillars, & Sea for the Temple.
of one of the chapiters was fiue cubites, and the
height of the other chapiter was fiue cubites.
17 He made grates like networke, and note wrethen
worke like chaynes for the chapiters that
were on the top of the pillars, euen seuen for the
one chapiter, and seuen for the other chapiter.
18 So he made the pillars and two rowes of
pomegranates round about in the one grate to
couer the chapiters that were vpon the top. And
thus did he for the other chapiter.
19 And the chapiters that were on the toppe
of the pillars were after note lilye worke in þe; porch,
foure cubites.
20 And the chapiters vpon the two pillars had
also aboue, note ouer against the belly note within the
networke pomegranates: for two h&ubar;dreth pomegranates
were in the two rankes about vpon note either
of the chapiters.
21 And he set vp the pillars in the note porche
of the Temple. And when hee had set vp the
right pillar, he called the name thereof note Iachin:
and when he had set vp the left pillar, he called
the name thereof note Boaz.
22 And vpon the top of the pillars was worke
of lilyes: so was the workemanship of the pillars
finished.
23 ¶2; And he made a molten note sea ten cubites
wide from brim to brim, rounde in compasse, and
fiue cubites hie, and a line of thirtie cubites did
compasse it about.
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24 And vnder the brimme of it were knoppes
like wilde cucumers compassing it round about,
ten in one cubite, compassing the sea note round about:
and the two rowes of knoppes were cast,
when it was molten.
25 It stoode on twelue bulles, three looking
towarde the North, and three toward the West,
and three toward the South, and three towarde
the East: and the sea stoode aboue vpon them,
and all their hinder partes were inward.
26 It was note an hand bredth thicke, & the brim
thereof was like the worke of the brim of a cup &wt;
floures of lilyes: it c&obar;teined two thous&abar;d note Baths.
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The making of the vessels.
27 ¶2; And he made tenne bases of brasse, one
base was foure cubites long, and foure cubites
broad, and three cubites hie.
28 ¶2; And the worke of the bases was on this
maner, They had borders, and the borders were
betweene the ledges:
29 And on the borders that were betweene
the ledges, were lyons, bulles and Cherubims:
and vpon the ledges there was a base aboue: and
beneath the lyons and bulles, were addicions
made of thinne worke.
30 And euery base had foure brasen wheeles,
and plates of brasse: and the foure corners had
note vndersetters: vnder the caldron were vndersetters
molten at the side of euery addicion.
31 And note the mouth of it was within the chapiter
and aboue to measure by the cubite: for the
mouth thereof was round made like a base, and
it was a cubite and halfe a cubite: and also vpon
the mouth thereof were grauen workes, whose
borders were foure square, and not round.
32 And vnder the borders were foure wheeles,
and the axeltrees of the wheeles ioyned to the
base: and the height of a wheele was a cubite and
halfe a cubite.
33 And the facion of the wheeles was like the
facion of a charet wheele, their axeltrees, and
their naues and their note felloes, and their spokes
were all molten.
34 And foure vndersetters were vpon the
foure corners of one base: and the vndersetters
thereof were of the base it selfe.
35 And in the toppe of the base was a rounde
note compasse of halfe a cubite hie round about: &
vpon the toppe of the base the ledges thereof and
the borders thereof were of the same.
36 And vpon the tables of the ledges thereof,
and on the borders thereof he did graue Cherubims,
lions and palmetrees, on the side of euery
one, and addicions round about.
37 Thus made he the tenne bases, They had all
one casting, one measure, and one syse.
38 ¶2; Then made he note ten caldrons of brasse,
one caldron conteyned fourty Baths: and euery
caldron was foure cubites, one caldron was vpon
one base throughout the ten bases.
39 And he set the bases, fiue on the right side
of the house, & fiue on the left side of the house.
And he set the sea on the right side of the note house
Eastward toward the South.
40 ¶2; And Hiram made caldrons, and besomes,
& basens, & Hiram finished all the worke that he
made to King Salomon for the house of þe; Lord:
41 To wit, two pillars and two bowles of the
chapiters that were on the toppe of the two pillars,
and two grates to couer the two bowles of
the chapiters which were vpon the toppe of the
pillars,
42 And foure hundreth pomegranates for the
two grates, euen two rowes of pomegranates for
euery grate to couer the two bowles of the chapiters,
that were vpon the pillars,
43 And the ten bases, and ten caldrons vpon
the bases,
44 And the sea, and twelue bulles vnder that
sea,
45 And pottes, and besomes and basens: and
all these vessels, which note Hiram made to King
Salomon for the house of the Lorde, were of
shining brasse
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46 In the plaine of Iorden did the King cast
them in note clay betweene Succoth and Zarthan.
47 And Salomon left to weigh all the vessels
because of the exceeding aboundance, neyther
could the weight of the brasse be counted.
48 So Salomon made all the vessels that perteyned
vnto the house of the Lord, the note golden
altar, and the golden table, whereon the shewbread
was,
49 And the candlestickes, fiue at the right
side, and fiue at the left, before the oracle of pure
gold, and the flowres, and the lampes, and the
snuffers of golde,
50 And the bowles, note and the hookes, and
the basens, and the spoones, and the ashpannes
of pure golde, and the hinges of golde for the
doores of the house within, euen for the most
holy place, and for the doores of the house, to
wit, of the Temple.
51 So was finished all the worke that King
Salomon made for the house of the Lorde, and
Salomon brought in the things which note Dauid
his father had dedicated: the siluer and the golde
and the vessels, and layed them among the treasures
of the house of the Lord.
