1 Reyes 7
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Otras construcciones de Salomón
7 Salomón construyó su propio palacio, y lo terminó en trece años.
2-3 También edificó el palacio llamado «Bosque del Líbano». Lo hizo de cuarenta y cinco metros de largo, veintidós metros y medio de ancho y trece metros y medio de alto. Le puso un cielo raso de madera, sostenido por cuarenta y cinco vigas de cedro. Las vigas estaban distribuidas en tres grupos de quince cada uno, y se apoyaban sobre cuatro hileras de columnas de cedro.
4-5 Salomón mandó a hacer tres hileras con tres ventanas cada una, y colocarlas una frente a la otra. También le colocó tres puertas a ambos lados.
6 Además, Salomón construyó el Salón de las Columnas, de veintidós metros y medio de largo, y trece metros y medio de ancho. Enfrente había otro salón con columnas y techo.
7 También edificó el Salón de la Justicia, en el que Salomón escuchaba los problemas del pueblo y decidía cómo resolverlos. Ese salón estaba totalmente cubierto de madera de cedro.
8 El palacio en el que vivía Salomón estaba frente al Salón de la Justicia, separado por un patio. Este salón y el palacio se parecían mucho. Además, para la hija del rey de Egipto, que era su esposa, edificó otro palacio parecido al suyo.
9 Por dentro y por fuera, todas estas construcciones fueron hechas con piedras costosas, cortadas a la medida. 10 La base del edificio estaba construida con las mejores piedras. Algunas medían cuatro metros y medio, y otras, tres metros con sesenta centímetros.
11 La parte superior del edificio también estaba hecha de cedro, y de piedras costosas, cortadas a la medida.
12 Alrededor del patio grande del palacio se pusieron tres hileras de esas piedras, y una hilera de vigas de cedro que servían para sostener el edificio. Esto mismo se había hecho en el patio interior del templo y en el salón de la entrada del palacio.
Hiram realiza los trabajos de bronce (2 Cr 2.2-18; 3.15-17)
13 El rey Salomón mandó a llamar a Hiram, que vivía en la ciudad de Tiro. 14 Hiram era hijo de una viuda de la tribu de Neftalí. Su padre era de Tiro y le había enseñado a trabajar el bronce, así que Hiram era muy hábil y capaz.
Hiram se presentó ante el rey Salomón, y realizó en sus construcciones todos los trabajos de bronce. 15 Hizo dos columnas que medían ocho metros de alto, y cinco metros y medio de circunferencia. 16-22 También preparó en bronce el adorno de la parte superior de cada columna. Ese adorno tenía forma de lirio, y medía dos metros y veinticinco centímetros de alto. Estaba decorado con figuras en forma de cadena. La parte más alta y ancha del adorno de bronce tenía dos hileras de figuras en forma de manzana. Cada hilera estaba formada por cien de esas figuras. Cuando las columnas estuvieron terminadas, Hiram las colocó en el salón de la entrada del templo. A la columna de la derecha la llamó Jaquín y a la de la izquierda Bóaz.
El gran tanque de agua (2 Cr 4.1-5)
23 Después Hiram fabricó un enorme tanque para el agua. Era redondo, y de un borde al otro medía cuatro metros. Su altura era de dos metros y veinticinco centímetros, y su circunferencia era de trece metros y medio. 24 Decoró todo el borde con dos enredaderas llenas de frutos. Cada cuarenta y cinco centímetros había diez frutos.
25 El tanque estaba sobre doce toros de bronce. Tres de estos toros miraban al norte, tres al sur, tres al este y tres al oeste, de modo que sus patas traseras quedaban hacia adentro. 26 Las paredes del tanque eran de ocho centímetros de grueso. Su borde se parecía a una flor de lirio abierta. En el tanque cabían cuarenta y cuatro mil litros de agua.
Los diez recipientes (2 Cr 4.6)
27 Hiram hizo también diez bases de bronce. Cada base era cuadrada, de un metro y ochenta centímetros por lado. Su altura era de un metro y treinta y cinco centímetros.
28-36 Cada lado de esas bases estaba decorado con figuras de leones, toros y querubines. Arriba y abajo de los toros y los leones había adornos florales. Cada lado estaba sujeto por un marco, y formaba con la base una sola pieza.
Cada base tenía cuatro ruedas de bronce. Sus ejes también eran de bronce y estaban sujetos a la base.
En las cuatro esquinas de la base había cuatro agarraderas de bronce decoradas con adornos florales, que servían para moverla. Estas agarraderas y la base formaban una sola pieza.
La boca para el recipiente era redonda, y tenía grabados con marcos cuadrados. Tenía un soporte de sesenta y ocho centímetros de alto y estaba dentro de un cerco que sobresalía cuarenta y cinco centímetros.
La parte superior de la base terminaba en un borde circular de veintidós centímetros y medio de alto. Hiram le talló alrededor querubines, leones, palmeras y guirnaldas, según el espacio que tenía. 37 Así fue como hizo las diez bases. Todas tenían la misma forma y tamaño, pues usó el mismo molde.
38 También hizo diez recipientes de bronce. Cada uno tenía un metro y ochenta centímetros de diámetro, y le cabían ochocientos ochenta litros de agua. Colocó cada recipiente sobre cada una de las bases que había hecho. 39 Cinco estaban en el lado derecho del templo y cinco en el lado izquierdo. El tanque grande lo puso en la esquina sureste del edificio.
Hiram termina sus trabajos (2 Cr 4.7-18)
40 Hiram también hizo las ollas, las palas y las vasijas. Así terminó todo el trabajo que hizo para el templo de Dios, por encargo del rey Salomón.
41 Éstos son todos los trabajos que realizó: las dos columnas, la parte superior de cada columna, las dos decoraciones en la parte superior de las columnas, 42 y las cuatrocientas figuras de esas decoraciones. 43 También hizo las diez bases y los recipientes que iban sobre ellas, 44 el gran tanque para el agua y los doce toros que lo sostenían, 45 y las ollas, palas y vasijas.
Todo lo que Hiram hizo para el templo de Dios a pedido del rey Salomón era de bronce pulido. 46 Los utensilios de bronce los hicieron en moldes de arena, en la región del Jordán, entre Sucot y Saretán. 47 Salomón no pidió que pesaran los utensilios de bronce porque eran muchos.
Los utensilios del templo (2 Cr 4.19—5.1)
48-50 Salomón también mandó hacer todos los utensilios que había en el templo de Dios. Los de oro puro eran:
el altar,
la mesa de los panes para Dios,
los diez candelabros del Lugar Santo,
las figuras de flores,
las lámparas,
las tenazas,
las copas,
las tijeras para cortar mechas,
las vasijas,
los cucharones,
los incensarios,
las bisagras de las puertas del Lugar Santísimo,
las bisagras de la puerta de la entrada principal del edificio.
51 De este modo se terminaron todos los trabajos que Salomón mandó a hacer para el templo de Dios. Después llevó todos los utensilios de oro y de plata que su padre David había dedicado para Dios, y los guardó en el lugar donde estaban los tesoros del templo de Dios.
1 Kings 7
New International Version
Solomon Builds His Palace
7 It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace.(A) 2 He built the Palace(B) of the Forest of Lebanon(C) a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high,[a] with four rows of cedar columns supporting trimmed cedar beams. 3 It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the columns—forty-five beams, fifteen to a row. 4 Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other. 5 All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.[b]
6 He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide.[c] In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof.
7 He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge,(D) and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.[d](E) 8 And the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design. Solomon also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.(F)
9 All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and smoothed on their inner and outer faces. 10 The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits[e] and some eight.[f] 11 Above were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams. 12 The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses(G) of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the Lord with its portico.
The Temple’s Furnishings(H)(I)
13 King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,[g](J) 14 whose 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,(K) with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all(L) the work assigned to him.
15 He cast two bronze pillars,(M) each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.[h] 16 He also made two capitals(N) of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits[i] high. 17 A network of interwoven chains adorned the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital. 18 He made pomegranates in two rows[j] encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars.[k] He did the same for each capital. 19 The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubits[l] high. 20 On the capitals of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped part next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates(O) in rows all around. 21 He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin[m] and the one to the north Boaz.[n](P) 22 The capitals on top were in the shape of lilies. And so the work on the pillars(Q) was completed.
23 He made the Sea(R) of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line(S) of thirty cubits[o] to measure around it. 24 Below the rim, gourds encircled it—ten to a cubit. The gourds were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea.
25 The Sea stood on twelve bulls,(T) 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. 26 It was a handbreadth[p] in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.[q]
27 He also made ten movable stands(U) of bronze; each was four cubits long, four wide and three high.[r] 28 This is how the stands were made: They had side panels attached to uprights. 29 On the panels between the uprights were lions, bulls and cherubim—and on the uprights as well. Above and below the lions and bulls were wreaths of hammered work. 30 Each stand(V) had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and each had a basin resting on four supports, cast with wreaths on each side. 31 On the inside of the stand there was an opening that had a circular frame one cubit[s] deep. This opening was round, and with its basework it measured a cubit and a half.[t] Around its opening there was engraving. The panels of the stands were square, not round. 32 The four wheels were under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand. The diameter of each wheel was a cubit and a half. 33 The wheels were made like chariot wheels; the axles, rims, spokes and hubs were all of cast metal.
34 Each stand had four handles, one on each corner, projecting from the stand. 35 At the top of the stand there was a circular band half a cubit[u] deep. The supports and panels were attached to the top of the stand. 36 He engraved cherubim, lions and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and on the panels, in every available space, with wreaths all around. 37 This is the way he made the ten stands. They were all cast in the same molds and were identical in size and shape.
38 He then made ten bronze basins,(W) each holding forty baths[v] and measuring four cubits across, one basin to go on each of the ten stands. 39 He placed five of the stands on the south side of the temple and five on the north. He placed the Sea on the south side, at the southeast corner of the temple. 40 He also made the pots[w] and shovels and sprinkling bowls.(X)
So Huram finished all the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of the Lord:
41 the 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;
42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network decorating the bowl-shaped capitals(Y) on top of the pillars);
43 the ten stands with their ten basins;
44 the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;
45 the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls.(Z)
All these objects that Huram(AA) made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of burnished bronze. 46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain(AB) of the Jordan between Sukkoth(AC) and Zarethan.(AD) 47 Solomon left all these things unweighed,(AE) because there were so many;(AF) the weight of the bronze(AG) was not determined.
48 Solomon also made all(AH) the furnishings that were in the Lord’s temple:
the golden altar;
the golden table(AI) on which was the bread of the Presence;(AJ)
49 the lampstands(AK) of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary);
the gold floral work and lamps and tongs;
50 the pure gold basins, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes(AL) and censers;(AM)
and the gold sockets for the doors of the innermost room, the Most Holy Place, and also for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
51 When all the work King Solomon had done for the temple of the Lord was finished, he brought in the things his father David had dedicated(AN)—the silver and gold and the furnishings(AO)—and he placed them in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 7:2 That is, about 150 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high or about 45 meters long, 23 meters wide and 14 meters high
- 1 Kings 7:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
- 1 Kings 7:6 That is, about 75 feet long and 45 feet wide or about 23 meters long and 14 meters wide
- 1 Kings 7:7 Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew floor
- 1 Kings 7:10 That is, about 15 feet or about 4.5 meters; also in verse 23
- 1 Kings 7:10 That is, about 12 feet or about 3.6 meters
- 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 7:27 That is, about 6 feet long and wide and about 4 1/2 feet high or about 1.8 meters long and wide and 1.4 meters high
- 1 Kings 7:31 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
- 1 Kings 7:31 That is, about 2 1/4 feet or about 68 centimeters; also in verse 32
- 1 Kings 7:35 That is, about 9 inches or about 23 centimeters
- 1 Kings 7:38 That is, about 240 gallons or about 880 liters
- 1 Kings 7:40 Many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac and Vulgate (see also verse 45 and 2 Chron. 4:11); many other Hebrew manuscripts basins
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