1 Kings 7:13-26

New International Version

The Temple’s Furnishings^(A)^(B)

¹³King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,^[a]^(C) ¹⁴whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was from Tyre and a skilled craftsman in bronze. Huram was filled with wisdom,^(D) with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all^(E) the work assigned to him.

¹⁵He cast two bronze pillars,^(F) each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.^[b] ¹⁶He also made two capitals^(G) of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits^[c] high. ¹⁷A network of interwoven chains adorned the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital. ¹⁸He made pomegranates in two rows^[d] encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars.^[e] He did the same for each capital. ¹⁹The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubits^[f] high. ²⁰On the capitals of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped part next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates^(H) in rows all around. ²¹He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin^[g] and the one to the north Boaz.^[h]^(I) ²²The capitals on top were in the shape of lilies. And so the work on the pillars^(J) was completed.

²³He made the Sea^(K) of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line^(L) of thirty cubits^[i] to measure around it. ²⁴Below the rim, gourds encircled it—ten to a cubit. The gourds were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.

²⁵The Sea stood on twelve bulls,^(M) three facing north, three facing west, three facing south and three facing east. The Sea rested on top of them, and their hindquarters were toward the center. ²⁶It was a handbreadth^[j] in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.^[k]

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Footnotes

1 Kings 7:13 Hebrew Hiram, a variant of Huram; also in verses 40 and 45
1 Kings 7:15 That is, about 27 feet high and 18 feet in circumference or about 8.1 meters high and 5.4 meters in circumference
1 Kings 7:16 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verse 23
1 Kings 7:18 Two Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts made the pillars, and there were two rows
1 Kings 7:18 Many Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts pomegranates
1 Kings 7:19 That is, about 6 feet or about 1.8 meters; also in verse 38
1 Kings 7:21 Jakin probably means he establishes.
1 Kings 7:21 Boaz probably means in him is strength.
1 Kings 7:23 That is, about 45 feet or about 14 meters
1 Kings 7:26 That is, about 3 inches or about 7.5 centimeters
1 Kings 7:26 That is, about 12,000 gallons or about 44,000 liters; the Septuagint does not have this sentence.

1 Kings 7:40-50

New International Version

⁴⁰He also made the pots^[a] and shovels and sprinkling bowls.^(A)

So Huram finished all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of the Lord:

⁴¹the two pillars;

the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

⁴²the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network decorating the bowl-shaped capitals^(B) on top of the pillars);

⁴³the ten stands with their ten basins;

⁴⁴the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;

⁴⁵the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls.^(C)

All these objects that Huram^(D) made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of burnished bronze. ⁴⁶The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain^(E) of the Jordan between Sukkoth^(F) and Zarethan.^(G) ⁴⁷Solomon left all these things unweighed,^(H) because there were so many;^(I) the weight of the bronze^(J) was not determined.