12. The walls of the great courtyard were built so that there was one layer of cedar beams between every three layers of finished stone, just like the walls of the inner courtyard of the lord’s Temple with its entry room.
13. King Solomon then asked for a man named Huram to come from Tyre.
14. He was half Israelite, since his mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. Huram was extremely skillful and talented in any work in bronze, and he came to do all the metal work for King Solomon.
15. Huram cast two bronze pillars, each 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference.
16. For the tops of the pillars he cast bronze capitals, each 71/2 feet tall.