7. He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge, and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.
8. And the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design. Solomon also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
9. All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and smoothed on their inner and outer faces.
10. The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits and some eight.
11. Above were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
12. The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the Lord with its portico.
13. King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,
14. whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom, with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.
15. He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
16. He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits high.
17. A network of interwoven chains adorned the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital.
18. He made pomegranates in two rows encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars. He did the same for each capital.
19. The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubits high.
20. On the capitals of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped part next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows all around.
21. He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz.
22. The capitals on top were in the shape of lilies. And so the work on the pillars was completed.
23. He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure round it.