1 Kings Chapter 7
1 Kings is the 11th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains 1 Kings 7:1 to 1 Kings 7:9.
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1 Kings 7:1
Now Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
1 Kings 7:2
He built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was 100 cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.
1 Kings 7:3
It was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 in each row.
1 Kings 7:4
There were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:5
All the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:6
Then he made the hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a threshold in front of them.
1 Kings 7:7
He made the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.
1 Kings 7:8
His house where he was to live, the other court inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had married.
1 Kings 7:9
All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
1 Kings 7:10
The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
1 Kings 7:11
And above were costly stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar.
1 Kings 7:12
So the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house.
1 Kings 7:13
Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.
1 Kings 7:14
He was a widow's son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work.
1 Kings 7:15
He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.
1 Kings 7:16
He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
1 Kings 7:17
There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital.
1 Kings 7:18
So he made the pillars, and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and so he did for the other capital.
1 Kings 7:19
The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.
1 Kings 7:20
There were capitals on the two pillars, even above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network; and the pomegranates numbered two hundred in rows around both capitals.
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