12. The surrounding great courtyard had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams, the same as the inner court of the House of Adonai and the portico of the House.
13. King Solomon sent for and had Hiram brought from Tyre.
14. He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, while his father was a man of Tyre, a coppersmith, and he was filled with wisdom, understanding and skill to do any work in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and executed all his work.
15. He fashioned the two bronze pillars, 18 cubits high and 12 cubits in circumference each.
16. He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set upon the tops of the pillars (the height of each capital was five cubits),
17. nettings of latticework and twisted threads of chain work for the capitals were on top of the pillars—seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital.