1. And his own house hath Solomon built thirteen years, and he finisheth all his house.
2. And he buildeth the house of the forest of Lebanon; a hundred cubits [is] its length, and fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars, and cedarbeams on the pillars;
3. and [it is] covered with cedar above, on the sides that [are] on the forty and five pillars, fifteen in the row.
4. And windows [are] in three rows, and sight [is] over-against sight three times.
5. And all the openings and the side-posts [are] square--windows; and sight [is] overagainst sight three times.
6. And the porch of the pillars he hath made; fifty cubits its length, and thirty cubits its breadth, and the porch [is] before them, and pillars and a thick place [are] before them.
7. And the porch of the throne where he judgeth--the porch of judgment--he hath made, and [it is] covered with cedar from the floor unto the floor.
8. As to his house where he dwelleth, the other court [is] within the porch--as this work it hath been; and a house he maketh for the daughter of Pharaoh--whom Solomon hath taken--like this porch.
9. All these [are] of precious stone, according to the measures of hewn work, sawn with a saw, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and at the outside, unto the great court.
10. And the foundation [is] of precious stone, great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits;
11. and above [are] precious stone, according to the measures of hewn work, and cedar;
12. and the great court round about [is] three rows of hewn work, and a row of cedarbeams, even for the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and for the porch of the house.
13. And king Solomon sendeth and taketh Hiram out of Tyre--
14. he [is] son of a woman, a widow, of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father a man of Tyre, a worker in brass, and he is filled with the wisdom and the understanding, and the knowledge to do all work in brass--and he cometh unto king Solomon, and doth all his work.
15. And he formeth the two pillars of brass; eighteen cubits [is] the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits doth compass the second pillar.
16. And two chapiters he hath made to put on the tops of the pillars, cast in brass; five cubits the height of the one chapiter, and five cubits the height of the second chapiter.