1 Kings 7
King James Version
7 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward over against the south.
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the Lord:
41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the Lord, were of bright brass.
46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the Lord: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the Lord. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the Lord.
1 Reyes 7
La Biblia de las Américas
El palacio de Salomón
7 Salomón edificó su propia casa, y en trece años la terminó toda[a](A). 2 Edificó la casa del bosque del Líbano(B), de cien codos[b] de largo, cincuenta codos de ancho y treinta codos de alto, sobre cuatro hileras de columnas de cedro con vigas de cedro sobre las columnas. 3 Estaba cubierta de cedro sobre las cámaras laterales[c] que estaban sobre las cuarenta y cinco columnas, quince en cada hilera. 4 Y había tres hileras de ventanas con celosías, una ventana frente a la otra en tres filas. 5 Todas las puertas y los postes tenían marcos cuadrados, una ventana frente a la otra en tres filas. 6 Hizo el pórtico de las columnas(C) de cincuenta codos de largo y treinta codos de ancho, y había otro pórtico delante de ellas, con columnas y un umbral delante de ellas(D). 7 También hizo el pórtico del trono donde había de juzgar, el pórtico del juicio(E), y fue cubierto de cedro desde el suelo hasta el techo[d](F). 8 Y la casa donde él había de morar, en otro atrio dentro del pórtico, era de la misma hechura. Hizo también una casa como este pórtico para la hija de Faraón(G) que Salomón había tomado por mujer(H).
9 Todas estas obras eran de piedras valiosas, cortadas a la medida, cortadas con sierras por dentro y por fuera, desde el cimiento hasta la cornisa, y por fuera hasta el gran atrio.
10 El cimiento era de piedras valiosas, piedras grandes, piedras de diez codos y piedras de ocho codos. 11 Y más arriba había piedras valiosas, cortadas a la medida, y cedro. 12 El gran atrio tenía en derredor tres hileras de piedras talladas y una hilera de vigas de cedro(I), igual que el atrio interior(J) de la casa del Señor y el pórtico de la casa.
La obra de Hiram en el templo
13 Y el rey Salomón envió a buscar a Hiram de Tiro(K). 14 Este[e] era hijo de una viuda de la tribu de Neftalí, y su padre era un hombre de Tiro, artífice en bronce(L); estaba lleno de sabiduría, inteligencia y pericia para hacer cualquier obra en bronce(M). Y él vino al rey Salomón e hizo toda su obra(N).
15 Fundió las dos columnas de bronce; la altura de una columna era de dieciocho codos(O), y un cordel de doce codos medía la circunferencia de las dos[f](P). 16 Hizo también dos capiteles de bronce fundido para colocarlos en las cabezas de las columnas; la altura de un capitel era de cinco codos y la del otro capitel era de cinco codos. 17 Había redes de obra de malla y trenzas de obra de cadenilla para los capiteles que estaban en la cima de las columnas; siete para un capitel y siete para el otro capitel. 18 Así hizo las columnas y dos hileras alrededor de la malla que cubría los capiteles que estaban sobre las granadas; y así hizo para el otro capitel. 19 Los capiteles que estaban en las cabezas de las columnas del pórtico tenían forma de lirios, y medían cuatro codos. 20 Y había también capiteles sobre las dos columnas, junto a la protuberancia[g] que estaba al lado de la malla; y había doscientas granadas en hileras alrededor de los dos capiteles[h](Q). 21 Erigió, pues, las columnas en el pórtico de la nave(R); erigió la columna derecha y la llamó Jaquín[i], y erigió la columna izquierda y la llamó Boaz[j](S). 22 Y en lo alto de las columnas había lirios tallados. Así fue terminada la obra de las columnas.
23 (T)Hizo asimismo el mar de metal fundido de diez codos de borde a borde, en forma circular; su altura era de cinco codos, y tenía treinta codos de circunferencia[k](U). 24 Y debajo del borde había calabazas alrededor(V), diez en cada codo, rodeando por completo el mar; las calabazas estaban en dos hileras, fundidas en una sola pieza[l](W). 25 El mar descansaba sobre doce bueyes; tres mirando al norte, tres mirando al occidente, tres mirando al sur y tres mirando al oriente; el mar descansaba sobre ellos y todas sus ancas estaban hacia adentro(X). 26 El grueso era de un palmo, y el borde estaba hecho como el borde de un cáliz, como una flor de lirio; y tenía capacidad para dos mil batos[m].
27 Entonces hizo las diez basas de bronce(Y); la longitud de cada basa era de cuatro codos, su anchura de cuatro codos y su altura de tres codos. 28 El diseño de las basas era este: tenían bordes[n] y los bordes estaban entre las molduras[o], 29 y en los bordes que estaban entre las molduras[p] había leones, bueyes y querubines; y en las molduras[q] había un pedestal arriba, y debajo de los leones y bueyes había guirnaldas a bajo relieve. 30 Cada basa tenía cuatro ruedas de bronce, con ejes de bronce, y sus cuatro patas tenían soportes; debajo de la pila había soportes fundidos con guirnaldas a cada lado. 31 La boca de la pila dentro de la corona en la parte superior medía un codo, y su boca era redonda como el diseño de un pedestal, de un codo y medio; también en su boca había entalladuras, y sus bordes eran cuadrados, no redondos. 32 Las cuatro ruedas estaban debajo de los bordes, y los ejes de las ruedas estaban en la basa. La altura de una rueda era de un codo y medio. 33 La hechura de las ruedas era como la hechura de una rueda de carro. Sus ejes, sus aros, sus rayos y sus cubos eran todos de fundición. 34 Y había cuatro soportes en las cuatro esquinas de cada basa; sus soportes eran parte de la basa misma. 35 Y en la parte superior de la basa había una pieza redonda de medio codo de alto, y en la parte superior de la basa sus soportes[r] y sus bordes formaban parte de ella. 36 Y en las planchas de sus soportes[s] y en sus bordes grabó querubines, leones y palmeras, conforme al espacio disponible de cada una, con guirnaldas alrededor. 37 Hizo las diez basas(Z) de esta manera: todas ellas eran de una misma fundición, de una misma medida y de una misma forma. 38 También hizo diez pilas de bronce(AA); en cada pila cabían cuarenta batos, cada pila medía cuatro codos, y sobre cada una de las diez basas había una pila. 39 Entonces colocó las basas, cinco al lado[t] derecho de la casa y cinco al lado[u] izquierdo de la casa; y colocó el mar de metal fundido al lado[v] derecho de la casa hacia el sureste.
40 Hiram hizo también los calderos[w], las palas y los tazones. Así terminó Hiram toda la obra que hizo para el rey Salomón en la casa del Señor: 41 las dos columnas y los tazones de los capiteles que estaban en lo alto de las dos columnas, las dos mallas para cubrir los dos tazones de los capiteles que estaban en lo alto de las columnas(AB); 42 las cuatrocientas granadas para las dos mallas, dos hileras de granadas por cada malla para cubrir los dos tazones de los capiteles que estaban en lo alto de las columnas(AC); 43 las diez basas con las diez pilas sobre las basas; 44 el[x] mar y los doce bueyes debajo del mar(AD); 45 los calderos, las palas y los tazones; todos estos utensilios que Hiram hizo para el rey Salomón en la casa del Señor eran de bronce bruñido(AE). 46 El rey los fundió en la llanura del Jordán, en la tierra arcillosa entre Sucot(AF) y Saretán(AG). 47 Salomón dejó todos los utensilios sin pesarlos porque eran demasiados; el peso del bronce no se pudo determinar(AH).
48 Y Salomón hizo todos los utensilios que estaban en la casa del Señor: el altar de oro y la mesa de oro(AI) sobre la cual estaba el pan de la Presencia[y](AJ); 49 los candelabros de oro puro, cinco a mano derecha y cinco a mano izquierda, frente al santuario interior; las flores, las lámparas y las tenazas de oro(AK); 50 las copas, las despabiladeras, los tazones, las cucharas y los incensarios de oro puro(AL); y los goznes para las puertas de la casa interior, el lugar santísimo, y para las puertas de la casa, es decir, de la nave, también de oro.
51 Así fue terminada toda la obra que el rey Salomón hizo en la casa del Señor. Y Salomón trajo las cosas consagradas por[z] su padre David, es decir, la plata, el oro y los utensilios, y los puso en los tesoros de la casa del Señor(AM).
Footnotes
- 1 Reyes 7:1 Lit., toda su casa
- 1 Reyes 7:2 Un codo equivale aprox. a 45 cm.
- 1 Reyes 7:3 O, las tablas
- 1 Reyes 7:7 Así en algunas versiones antiguas; en el T.M., desde el suelo, hasta el suelo
- 1 Reyes 7:14 Lit., El
- 1 Reyes 7:15 Lit., rodeaba la segunda columna
- 1 Reyes 7:20 Lit., vientre
- 1 Reyes 7:20 Lit., en el segundo capitel
- 1 Reyes 7:21 I.e., él afirmará
- 1 Reyes 7:21 I.e., en ella hay fortaleza
- 1 Reyes 7:23 Lit., y un cordel de 30 codos lo rodeaba por completo
- 1 Reyes 7:24 Lit., en su molde
- 1 Reyes 7:26 Un bato equivale aprox. a 22 litros
- 1 Reyes 7:28 O, paneles, y así en el resto del cap.
- 1 Reyes 7:28 O, los travesaños
- 1 Reyes 7:29 O, los travesaños
- 1 Reyes 7:29 O, los travesaños
- 1 Reyes 7:35 Lit., manos
- 1 Reyes 7:36 Lit., manos
- 1 Reyes 7:39 Lit., hombro
- 1 Reyes 7:39 Lit., hombro
- 1 Reyes 7:39 Lit., hombro
- 1 Reyes 7:40 Así en 2 Crón. 4:11; en heb., las pilas
- 1 Reyes 7:44 Lit., un
- 1 Reyes 7:48 O, de la Proposición; lit., del Rostro
- 1 Reyes 7:51 Lit., de
1 Kings 7
New King James Version
Solomon’s Other Buildings
7 But Solomon took (A)thirteen years to build his own house; so he finished all his house.
2 He also built the (B)House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was [a]one hundred cubits, its width [b]fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars. 3 And it was paneled with cedar above the beams that were on forty-five pillars, fifteen to a row. 4 There were windows with beveled frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers. 5 And all the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames; and window was opposite window in three tiers.
6 He also made the Hall of Pillars: its length was fifty cubits, and its width thirty cubits; and in front of them was a portico with pillars, and a canopy was in front of them.
7 Then he made a hall for the throne, the Hall of Judgment, where he might judge; and it was paneled with cedar from floor to [c]ceiling.
8 And the house where he dwelt had another court inside the hall, of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, (C)whom he had taken as wife.
9 All these were of costly stones cut to size, trimmed with saws, inside and out, from the foundation to the eaves, and also on the outside to the great court. 10 The foundation was of costly stones, large stones, some ten cubits and some eight cubits. 11 And above were costly stones, hewn to size, and cedar wood. 12 The great court was enclosed with three rows of hewn stones and a row of cedar beams. So were the (D)inner court of the house of the Lord (E)and the vestibule of the temple.
Hiram the Craftsman
13 Now King Solomon sent and brought [d]Huram from Tyre. 14 (F)He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and (G)his father was a man of Tyre, a bronze worker; (H)he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill in working with all kinds of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and did all his work.
The Bronze Pillars for the Temple(I)
15 And he [e]cast (J)two pillars of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each. 16 Then he made two capitals of cast bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. 17 He made a lattice network, with wreaths of chainwork, for the capitals which were on top of the pillars: seven chains for one capital and seven for the other capital. 18 So he made the pillars, and two rows of pomegranates above the network all around to cover the capitals that were on top; and thus he did for the other capital.
19 The capitals which were on top of the pillars in the hall were in the shape of lilies, four cubits. 20 The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above, by the convex surface which was next to the network; and there were (K)two hundred such pomegranates in rows on each of the capitals all around.
21 (L)Then he set up the pillars by the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the right and called its name [f]Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name [g]Boaz. 22 The tops of the pillars were in the shape of lilies. So the work of the pillars was finished.
The Sea and the Oxen
23 And he made (M)the Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.
24 Below its brim were ornamental buds encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, (N)all the way around the Sea. The ornamental buds were cast in two rows when it was cast. 25 It stood on (O)twelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward. 26 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained [h]two thousand baths.
The Carts and the Lavers
27 He also made ten [i]carts of bronze; four cubits was the length of each cart, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. 28 And this was the design of the carts: They had panels, and the panels were between frames; 29 on the panels that were between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. And on the frames was a pedestal on top. Below the lions and oxen were wreaths of plaited work. 30 Every cart had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze, and its four feet had supports. Under the laver were supports of cast bronze beside each wreath. 31 Its opening inside the crown at the top was one cubit in diameter; and the opening was round, shaped like a pedestal, one and a half cubits in outside diameter; and also on the opening were engravings, but the panels were square, not round. 32 Under the panels were the four wheels, and the axles of the wheels were joined to the cart. The height of a wheel was one and a half cubits. 33 The workmanship of the wheels was like the workmanship of a chariot wheel; their axle pins, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all of cast bronze. 34 And there were four supports at the four corners of each cart; its supports were part of the cart itself. 35 On the top of the cart, at the height of half a cubit, it was perfectly round. And on the top of the cart, its flanges and its panels were of the same casting. 36 On the plates of its flanges and on its panels he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, wherever there was a clear space on each, with wreaths all around. 37 Thus he made the ten carts. All of them were of [j]the same mold, one measure, and one shape.
38 Then (P)he made ten lavers of bronze; each laver contained [k]forty baths, and each laver was four cubits. On each of the ten carts was a laver. 39 And he put five carts on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house. He set the Sea on the right side of the house, toward the southeast.
Furnishings of the Temple(Q)
40 (R)Huram[l] made the lavers and the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing all the work that he was to do for King Solomon for the house of the Lord: 41 the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the two pillars; the two (S)networks covering the two bowl-shaped capitals which were on top of the pillars; 42 (T)four hundred pomegranates for the two networks (two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowl-shaped capitals that were on top of the pillars); 43 the ten carts, and ten lavers on the carts; 44 one Sea, and twelve oxen under the Sea; 45 (U)the pots, the shovels, and the bowls.
All these articles which [m]Huram made for King Solomon for the house of the Lord were of burnished bronze. 46 (V)In the plain of Jordan the king had them cast in clay molds, between (W)Succoth and (X)Zaretan. 47 And Solomon did not weigh all the articles, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not (Y)determined.
48 Thus Solomon had all the furnishings made for the house of the Lord: (Z)the altar of gold, and (AA)the table of gold on which was (AB)the showbread; 49 the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary, with the flowers and the lamps and the wick-trimmers of gold; 50 the basins, the trimmers, the bowls, the ladles, and the [n]censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner room (the Most Holy Place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.
51 So all the work that King Solomon had done for the house of the Lord was finished; and Solomon brought in the things (AC)which his father David had dedicated: the silver and the gold and the furnishings. He put them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.
Footnotes
- 1 Kings 7:2 About 150 feet
- 1 Kings 7:2 About 75 feet
- 1 Kings 7:7 Lit. floor of the upper level
- 1 Kings 7:13 Heb. Hiram; cf. 2 Chr. 2:13, 14
- 1 Kings 7:15 fashioned
- 1 Kings 7:21 Lit. He Shall Establish
- 1 Kings 7:21 Lit. In It Is Strength
- 1 Kings 7:26 About 12,000 gallons; three thousand, 2 Chr. 4:5
- 1 Kings 7:27 Or stands
- 1 Kings 7:37 one
- 1 Kings 7:38 About 240 gallons
- 1 Kings 7:40 Heb. Hiram; cf. 2 Chr. 2:13, 14
- 1 Kings 7:45 Heb. Hiram; cf. 2 Chr. 2:13, 14
- 1 Kings 7:50 firepans
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