9. All these works were of costly stones, cut and sawed with saws according to the measurements, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court.
10. And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
11. And above were also costly stones, hewed according to their measurements, and work of cedar.
12. And the great court round about had three orders of hewed stones and an order of cedar beams, and likewise the inner court of the house of the Lord and the porch of the house.
13. And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre,
14. who was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been of Tyre. A worker in brass, full of wisdom and intelligence and knowledge in all work of brass. And he came to King Solomon and did all his work.
15. He made two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece, and a line of twelve cubits did compass each of them about.
16. And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits.
17. And nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the chapiters which were to be placed upon the top of the pillars, seven for the one chapiter and seven for the other chapiter.
18. And when he had made the pillars, he also made two orders of pomegranates round about upon the network to cover the chapiters that were upon the heads of the pillars with the pomegranates, and so did he for the other chapiter.
19. And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were in the form of lilies like those seen in the porch, for four cubits.
20. And the chapiters upon the two pillars had two hundred pomegranates in two orders round about in each chapiter, on top of the belly of the chapiter, this belly being in front of the network.
21. And he stood up the pillars in the porch of the temple. And when he had set up the right pillar, he called the name of it Jachin; {Heb. The Lord establishes}; and in standing up the left pillar, he called its name Boaz. {Heb. Only in Him is there strength}
22. And upon the top of the pillars was lily work, and so the work of the pillars was finished.
23. Likewise, he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other; it was perfectly round, and its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24. And under the brim of it round about there were knops like gourds compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about in two orders, which were made when it was cast.
25. It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north and three looking toward the west and three looking toward the Negev and three looking toward the east; and upon them the sea rested, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26. And it was a hand breadth thick, and its lip was made like the lip of a cup, with flowers of lilies; it contained two thousand baths.
27. He also made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of each base and four cubits the width and three cubits the height.