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¹ In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month Ziu, even in the second month. ² And the house which the king built to the Lord was forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and twenty cubits. ³ And the porch in front of the temple—twenty cubits was its length according to the breadth of the house in front of the house: and he built the house, and finished it. ⁴ And he made to the house secret windows inclining inward. ⁵ And against the wall of the house he set chambers round about the temple and the ark. ⁶ The under side was five cubits broad, and the middle part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house. ⁷ And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool. ⁸ And the porch of the under side was below the right wing of the house, and there was a winding ascent into the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third story. ⁹ So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars. ¹⁰ 006¹³ And king Solomon sent, and took Chiram out of Tyre, ¹⁴ the 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 art and skill and knowledge to work every work in brass: and he was brought in to king Solomon, and he wrought all the works.

¹⁵ And 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. ¹⁶ And 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. ¹⁷ And he made two ornaments of net-work to cover the chapiters of the pillars; even a net for one chapiter, and a net for the other chapiter. ¹⁸ And hanging work, two rows of brazen pomegranates, formed with net-work, hanging work, row upon row: and thus he framed the ornaments for the second chapiter. ¹⁹ And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits, ²⁰ and a chamber over both the pillars, and above the sides an addition equal to the chamber in width. ²¹ 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. ²² And he covered the whole house with gold, till he had finished gilding the whole house. ²³ And 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. ²⁴ And stays underneath its rim round about compassed it ten cubits round; ²⁵ And 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. ²⁶ and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span. ²⁷ And 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. ²⁸ And this work of the bases was formed with a border the them, and there was a border between the ledges. ²⁹ And 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. ³⁰ And 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. ³¹ And there were axles in the wheels under the base. ³² And the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half. ³³ And 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. ³⁴ The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders were formed of the base. ³⁵ And 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. ³⁶ And its borders were cherubs, and lions, and palm-trees, upright, each was joined in front and within and round about. ³⁷ According to the same form he made all the ten bases, even one order and one measure to all. ³⁸ And 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.