8. The palace where Solomon lived was built like the Hall of Justice, and it was behind this hall. Solomon also built the same kind of palace for his wife, who was the daughter of the king of Egypt.
9. All these buildings were made with blocks of fine stone. First they were carefully cut. Then they were trimmed with a saw in the front and back. These fine stones went from the foundations of the buildings to the top of the walls. Even the courtyard was made with blocks of stone.
10. The foundations were made with large blocks of fine stone, some as long as fifteen feet. Others were twelve feet long.
11. On top of these foundation stones were other blocks of fine stone and cedar beams.
12. The palace courtyard, the courtyard inside the Temple, and the porch of the Temple were surrounded by walls. All of these walls had three rows of stone blocks and one row of cedar beams.
13. King Solomon sent to Tyre and had Huram brought to him.
14. Huram’s mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was from Tyre and had been skilled in making things from bronze. Huram was also very skilled and experienced in bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and did all the bronze work.
15. He made two bronze pillars, each one twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet around.
16. He also made two bronze capitals that were seven and one-half feet tall, and he put them on top of the pillars.
17. Then he made a net of seven chains for each capital, which covered the capitals on top of the two pillars.
18. He made two rows of bronze pomegranates to go on the nets. These covered the capitals at the top of the pillars.
19. The capitals on top of the pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies, and they were six feet tall.
20. The capitals were on top of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped section and next to the nets. At that place there were two hundred pomegranates in rows all around the capitals.
21. Huram put these two bronze pillars at the porch of the Temple. He named the south pillar He Establishes and the north pillar In Him Is Strength.