2. He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits, and its width was fifty cubits, and its height was thirty cubits, built on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3. It was covered with cedar over the top of the beams, which sat upon forty-five pillars, fifteen in a row.
4. There were window frames in three rows and window opposite window in three tiers.
5. All the doors and posts were rectangular with the openings facing each other in three tiers.
6. He made a porch of pillars with a length of fifty cubits and a breadth of thirty cubits. There was a porch in front with pillars, and a canopy in front of them.
7. Then he made a porch for the throne, from which he would judge, and called it the Hall of Judgment. It was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8. His own house where he lived, in the other court back of the hall, was similar in style. Solomon also made a house like this for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken as a wife.
9. All these were built with costly stones, cut to size and sawed with saws on the inside and outside, from the foundation up to the coping, throughout the outside toward the great court.
10. The foundation was of large, costly stones, stones of ten and eight cubits in size.
11. Above were costly stones cut to size, along with cedars.
12. The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewed stones and a row of cedar beams. So were the inner court of the house of the Lord and the porch of the house.
13. Now King Solomon sent and called Huram out of Tyre.
14. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre who worked in bronze, and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill to make all sorts of items in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work.
15. He cast two pillars of bronze eighteen cubits high each and twelve cubits in circumference.
16. He made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
17. He made lattices of checker work with wreaths of chainwork for the capitals on top of the pillars: seven for one capital and seven for the other.
18. Likewise he made pomegranates in two rows around the one latticework to cover the capital that was on the top of the pillar, and he did the same for the other capital.
19. The capitals that were on top of the pillars in the porch were four cubits high and in the shape of lilies.