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1 Kings 7:7-20 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

7. And he made a hall for the throne, the Hall of Right-ruling, where he ruled. And it was panelled with cedar from floor to floor.

8. And the house where he was to dwell, in the other courtyard, within the hall was of like workmanship. And Shelomoh made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken.

9. All these were of precious stone hewn to size, sawed with a saw, inside and out, from the foundation to the coping, and also on the outside to the great courtyard.

10. And the foundation was of precious stone, large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

11. And above were precious stones, hewn to size, and cedar wood.

12. So the great courtyard all around had three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the House of יהוה and the porch of the House.

13. And Sovereign Shelomoh sent and brought Ḥiram from Tsor.

14. He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tsor, a bronze worker. And he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill in working with all kinds of bronze work. So he came to Sovereign Shelomoh and did all his work.

15. And he cast two columns of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each.

16. And he made two capitals of cast bronze, to put on the tops of the columns – the height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits –

17. a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, for the capitals which were on top of the columns, seven chains for one capital and seven for the other capital.

18. And he made the columns, and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cover the capitals that were on top, and so he did for the other capital.

19. And the capitals that were on top of the columns in the hall were in the shape of lilies, four cubits.

20. And there were capitals above also on the two columns, by the bulge which was next to the network. And the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows on each of the capitals all around.

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