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Salomón construye su palacio

7 Salomón también terminó la construcción de su propio palacio, pero el proyecto le llevó trece años. 2 Construyó el palacio «Bosque del Líbano», el cual medía cien codos de largo, cincuenta codos de ancho y treinta codos de alto.[a] Cuatro hileras de columnas de cedro sostenían las vigas, las cuales también eran de cedro. 3 Encima de las columnas había cuarenta y cinco cámaras laterales, quince en cada piso; y sobre las cámaras[b] había un techo de cedro. 4 Las ventanas estaban colocadas en tres filas, de tres en tres y unas frente a las otras. 5 Todas las entradas tenían un marco rectangular y estaban colocadas de tres en tres, unas frente a las otras.

6 Salomón también hizo un vestíbulo de columnas que medía cincuenta codos de largo y treinta codos de ancho.[c] Al frente había otro vestíbulo con columnas y un alero.

7 Construyó además una sala para su trono, es decir, el tribunal donde impartía justicia. Esta sala la recubrió de cedro de arriba abajo. 8 Su residencia personal estaba en un atrio aparte y tenía un modelo parecido. A la hija del faraón, con la cual se había casado, Salomón le construyó un palacio semejante.

9 Desde los cimientos hasta las cornisas, y desde la parte exterior hasta el gran atrio, todo se hizo con bloques de piedra de buena calidad, cortados a la medida y aserrados por ambos lados. 10 Para echar los cimientos se usaron piedras grandes y de buena calidad; unas medían diez codos y otras ocho.[d] 11 Para la parte superior se usaron también piedras de buena calidad, cortadas a la medida, y vigas de cedro. 12 El muro que rodeaba el gran atrio tenía tres hileras de piedra tallada por cada hilera de vigas de cedro, lo mismo que el atrio interior y el vestíbulo del templo del Señor.

Mobiliario del templo(A)(B)

13 El rey Salomón mandó traer de Tiro a Hiram, 14 que era hijo de una viuda de la tribu de Neftalí y de un nativo de Tiro, artesano en bronce. Hiram tenía sabiduría, inteligencia y capacidad para trabajar en toda clase de trabajo en bronce, así que se presentó ante el rey Salomón y realizó todo el trabajo que se le asignó.

15 Hiram fundió dos columnas de bronce, cada una de dieciocho codos de alto y doce codos de circunferencia.[e] 16 Las columnas que hizo remataban en dos capiteles de bronce fundido que medían cinco codos de alto.[f] 17 Una red de cadenas trenzadas adornaba los capiteles en la parte superior de las columnas y en cada capitel había siete trenzas. 18 El capitel de cada columna[g] lo cubrió con dos hileras de granadas[h] entrelazadas con las cadenas. 19 Estos capiteles en que remataban las columnas del vestíbulo tenían forma de azucenas y medían cuatro codos.[i] 20 La parte más alta y ancha de los capiteles de ambas columnas estaba rodeada por doscientas granadas, dispuestas en hileras junto a la red de cadenas. 21 Cuando Hiram levantó las columnas en el vestíbulo de la nave central, llamó Jaquín a la columna de la derecha y Boaz a la de la izquierda.[j] 22 El trabajo de las columnas quedó terminado cuando se colocaron en la parte superior las figuras en forma de azucenas.

23 Hizo también una fuente[k] circular de metal fundido que medía diez codos de diámetro y cinco codos de alto. Su circunferencia, medida a cordel, era de treinta codos.[l] 24 Debajo del borde hizo dos hileras de figuras de calabazas, diez por cada codo, las cuales estaban fundidas en una sola pieza con la fuente.

25 La fuente descansaba sobre doce bueyes que tenían sus cuartos traseros hacia adentro. Tres bueyes miraban al norte, tres al oeste, tres al sur y tres al este. 26 El grosor de la fuente era de un palmo[m] y su borde, en forma de copa, se asemejaba a un capullo de azucena. Tenía una capacidad de dos mil batos.[n]

27 También hizo diez bases de bronce, cada una de las cuales medía cuatro codos de largo, cuatro codos de ancho y tres codos de alto.[o] 28 Estaban revestidas con paneles entre los bordes. 29 En los paneles había figuras de leones, bueyes y querubines, mientras que en los bordes, por encima y por debajo de los leones y los bueyes, había guirnaldas repujadas. 30 Cada base tenía cuatro ruedas de bronce con ejes también de bronce y tenía un recipiente que se apoyaba sobre cuatro soportes fundidos que tenían guirnaldas en cada lado. 31 La boca del recipiente era circular y sobresalía un codo;[p] con su pedestal medía un codo y medio.[q] Alrededor de la boca había entalladuras, pero los paneles de la base eran cuadrados, no redondos. 32 Las cuatro ruedas estaban debajo de los paneles y los ejes de las ruedas estaban unidos a la base. Cada rueda medía un codo y medio de diámetro 33 y estaba hecha de metal fundido, como las ruedas de los carros, con sus ejes, aros, rayos y cubos.

34 Cada base tenía cuatro soportes unidos a ella, uno en cada esquina. 35 En la parte superior de la base había un marco circular de medio codo.[r] Los soportes y paneles formaban una misma pieza con la parte superior de la base. 36 Sobre las superficies de los soportes y sobre los paneles Hiram grabó querubines, leones y palmeras, con guirnaldas alrededor, según el espacio disponible. 37 De esa manera hizo las diez bases, las cuales fueron fundidas en los mismos moldes y eran idénticas en forma y tamaño.

38 Hiram hizo también diez recipientes de bronce, uno para cada base. Cada uno de ellos medía cuatro codos y tenía capacidad para cuarenta batos.[s] 39 Colocó cinco de las bases al lado derecho del templo y cinco al lado izquierdo. La fuente de metal la colocó en la esquina del lado derecho, al sureste del templo. 40 También hizo las ollas,[t] las tenazas y los tazones.

Así Hiram terminó todo el trabajo que había emprendido para el rey Salomón en el templo del Señor, es decir:

41 las dos columnas;

los dos capiteles en forma de tazón que coronaban las columnas;

las dos redes que decoraban los capiteles;

42 las cuatrocientas granadas, dispuestas en dos hileras para cada red que cubrían los tazones que estaban en lo alto de las columnas;

43 las diez bases con sus diez recipientes de bronce;

44 la fuente de metal y los doce bueyes que la sostenían;

45 las ollas, las tenazas y los tazones.

Todos esos utensilios que Hiram hizo para el templo del Señor por orden del rey Salomón eran de bronce pulido. 46 El rey los hizo fundir en moldes de arcilla en la llanura del Jordán, entre Sucot y Saretán. 47 Eran tantos los utensilios que Salomón ni los pesó, así que no fue posible determinar el peso del bronce.

48 Salomón también mandó hacer los otros utensilios que estaban en el templo del Señor, es decir:

el altar de oro;

la mesa de oro sobre la que se ponía el pan de la Presencia;

49 los candelabros de oro puro, cinco en el lado sur y cinco en el lado norte, en frente del santuario interior;

la obra floral, las lámparas y los cortapabilos, que también eran de oro;

50 las vasijas, los cortapabilos, los tazones, la vajilla y los incensarios;

y las bisagras de oro para las puertas del Lugar Santísimo, como también para las puertas de la nave central del templo.

51 Una vez terminada toda la obra que el rey había mandado hacer para el templo del Señor, Salomón hizo traer el oro, la plata y los utensilios que su padre David había consagrado, y los depositó en el tesoro del templo del Señor.

Footnotes

  1. 7:2 Es decir, aprox. 45 m de largo por 23 de ancho por 14 de alto.
  2. 7:3 cámaras … sobre las cámaras. Alt. vigas, quince en cada hilera; y sobre las vigas.
  3. 7:6 Es decir, aprox. 23 m de largo y 14 de ancho.
  4. 7:10 Es decir, aprox. 4.5 y 3.6 m; también en v. 23.
  5. 7:15 Es decir, aprox. 8 m de alto y 5 m de circunferencia.
  6. 7:16 Es decir, aprox. 2.3 m de alto; también en v. 23.
  7. 7:18 de cada columna (muchos mss. hebreos, LXX y Siríaca); de las granadas (TM).
  8. 7:18 con dos hileras de granadas (dos mss. hebreos y LXX); hizo las columnas y dos hileras (TM).
  9. 7:19 Es decir, aprox. 1.8 m; también en v. 38.
  10. 7:21 Jaquín (que probablemente significa él establece) estaba al sur, y Boaz (probablemente en él hay fuerza) estaba al norte.
  11. 7:23 una fuente. Lit. el mar; así en el resto de este pasaje.
  12. 7:23 Es decir, aprox. 14 m.
  13. 7:26 Es decir, aprox. 7.5 cm.
  14. 7:26 Es decir, aprox. 44 000 l.
  15. 7:27 Es decir, aprox. 1.8 m de largo, 1.8 m de ancho y 1.4 m de alto.
  16. 7:31 Es decir, aprox. 45 cm.
  17. 7:31 Es decir, aprox. 68 cm; también en v. 32.
  18. 7:35 Es decir, aprox. 23 cm.
  19. 7:38 Es decir, aprox. 880 l.
  20. 7:40 las ollas (muchos mss., LXX, Siríaca y Vulgata; véase v. 45); los lavabos (TM).
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1 Kings 7
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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. 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
  2. 1 Kings 7:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.
  3. 1 Kings 7:6 That is, about 75 feet long and 45 feet wide or about 23 meters long and 14 meters wide
  4. 1 Kings 7:7 Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew floor
  5. 1 Kings 7:10 That is, about 15 feet or about 4.5 meters; also in verse 23
  6. 1 Kings 7:10 That is, about 12 feet or about 3.6 meters
  7. 1 Kings 7:13 Hebrew Hiram, a variant of Huram; also in verses 40 and 45
  8. 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
  9. 1 Kings 7:16 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters; also in verse 23
  10. 1 Kings 7:18 Two Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts made the pillars, and there were two rows
  11. 1 Kings 7:18 Many Hebrew manuscripts and Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts pomegranates
  12. 1 Kings 7:19 That is, about 6 feet or about 1.8 meters; also in verse 38
  13. 1 Kings 7:21 Jakin probably means he establishes.
  14. 1 Kings 7:21 Boaz probably means in him is strength.
  15. 1 Kings 7:23 That is, about 45 feet or about 14 meters
  16. 1 Kings 7:26 That is, about 3 inches or about 7.5 centimeters
  17. 1 Kings 7:26 That is, about 12,000 gallons or about 44,000 liters; the Septuagint does not have this sentence.
  18. 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
  19. 1 Kings 7:31 That is, about 18 inches or about 45 centimeters
  20. 1 Kings 7:31 That is, about 2 1/4 feet or about 68 centimeters; also in verse 32
  21. 1 Kings 7:35 That is, about 9 inches or about 23 centimeters
  22. 1 Kings 7:38 That is, about 240 gallons or about 880 liters
  23. 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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I Regum 7
Biblia Sacra Vulgata

7 Domum autem suam aedificavit Salomon tredecim annis, et ad perfectum usque perduxit.

2 AEdificavit quoque domum saltus Libani centum cubitorum longitudinis, et quinquaginta cubitorum latitudinis, et triginta cubitorum altitudinis: et quatuor deambulacra inter columnas cedrinas: ligna quippe cedrina exciderat in columnas.

3 Et tabulatis cedrinis vestivit totam cameram, quae quadraginta quinque columnis sustentabatur. Unus autem ordo habebat columnas quindecim

4 contra se invicem positas,

5 et e regione se respicientes, aequali spatio inter columnas, et super columnas quadrangulata ligna in cunctis aequalia.

6 Et porticum columnarum fecit quinquaginta cubitorum longitudinis, et triginta cubitorum latitudinis: et alteram porticum in facie majoris porticus: et columnas, et epistylia super columnas.

7 Porticum quoque solii, in qua tribunal est, fecit: et texit lignis cedrinis a pavimento usque ad summitatem.

8 Et domuncula, in qua sedebatur ad judicandum, erat in media porticu simili opere. Domum quoque fecit filiae Pharaonis (quam uxorem duxerat Salomon) tali opere, quali et hanc porticum.

9 Omnia lapidibus pretiosis, qui ad normam quamdam atque mensuram tam intrinsecus quam extrinsecus serrati erant: a fundamento usque ad summitatem parietum, et extrinsecus usque ad atrium majus.

10 Fundamenta autem de lapidibus pretiosis, lapidibus magnis, decem sive octo cubitorum.

11 Et desuper lapides pretiosi aequalis mensurae secti erant, similiterque de cedro.

12 Et atrium majus rotundum trium ordinum de lapidibus sectis, et unius ordinis de dolata cedro: necnon et in atrio domus Domini interiori, et in porticu domus.

13 Misit quoque rex Salomon, et tulit Hiram de Tyro,

14 filium mulieris viduae de tribu Nephthali, patre Tyrio, artificem aerarium, et plenum sapientia, et intelligentia, et doctrina, ad faciendum omne opus ex aere. Qui cum venisset ad regem Salomonem, fecit omne opus ejus.

15 Et finxit duas columnas aereas, decem et octo cubitorum altitudinis columnam unam: et linea duodecim cubitorum ambiebat columnam utramque.

16 Duo quoque capitella fecit, quae ponerentur super capita columnarum, fusilia ex aere: quinque cubitorum altitudinis capitellum unum, et quinque cubitorum altitudinis capitellum alterum:

17 et quasi in modum retis, et catenarum sibi invicem miro opere contextarum. Utrumque capitellum columnarum fusile erat: septena versuum retiacula in capitello uno, et septena retiacula in capitello altero.

18 Et perfecit columnas, et duos ordines per circuitum retiaculorum singulorum, ut tegerent capitella quae erant super summitatem, malogranatorum: eodem modo fecit et capitello secundo.

19 Capitella autem quae erant super capita columnarum, quasi opere lilii fabricata erant in porticu quatuor cubitorum.

20 Et rursum alia capitella in summitate columnarum desuper juxta mensuram columnae contra retiacula: malogranatorum autem ducenti ordines erant in circuitu capitelli secundi.

21 Et statuit duas columnas in porticu templi: cumque statuisset columnam dexteram, vocavit eam nomine Jachin: similiter erexit columnam secundam, et vocavit nomen ejus Booz.

22 Et super capita columnarum opus in modum lilii posuit: perfectumque est opus columnarum.

23 Fecit quoque mare fusile decem cubitorum a labio usque ad labium, rotundum in circuitu: quinque cubitorum altitudo ejus, et resticula triginta cubitorum cingebat illud per circuitum.

24 Et sculptura subter labium circuibat illud decem cubitis ambiens mare: duo ordines sculpturarum striatarum erant fusiles.

25 Et stabat super duodecim boves, e quibus tres respiciebant ad aquilonem, et tres ad occidentem, et tres ad meridiem, et tres ad orientem: et mare super eos desuper erat: quorum posteriora universa intrinsecus latitabant.

26 Grossitudo autem luteris, trium unciarum erat: labiumque ejus quasi labium calicis, et folium repandi lilii: duo millia batos capiebat.

27 Et fecit decem bases aeneas, quatuor cubitorum longitudinis bases singulas, et quatuor cubitorum latitudinis, et trium cubitorum altitudinis.

28 Et ipsum opus basium, interrasile erat: et sculpturae inter juncturas.

29 Et inter coronulas et plectas, leones et boves et cherubim, et in juncturis similiter desuper: et subter leones et boves, quasi lora ex aere dependentia.

30 Et quatuor rotae per bases singulas, et axes aerei: et per quatuor partes quasi humeruli subter luterem fusiles, contra se invicem respectantes.

31 Os quoque luteris intrinsecus erat in capitis summitate: et quod forinsecus apparebat, unius cubiti erat totum rotundum, pariterque habebat unum cubitum et dimidium: in angulis autem columnarum variae caelaturae erant: et media intercolumnia, quadrata non rotunda.

32 Quatuor quoque rotae quae per quatuor angulos basis erant, cohaerebant sibi subter basim: una rota habebat altitudinis cubitum et semis.

33 Tales autem rotae erant quales solent in curru fieri: et axes earum, et radii, et canthi, et modioli, omnia fusilia.

34 Nam et humeruli illi quatuor per singulos angulos basis unius, ex ipsa basi fusiles et conjuncti erant.

35 In summitate autem basis erat quaedam rotunditas dimidii cubiti, ita fabrefacta ut luter desuper posset imponi, habens caelaturas suas, variasque sculpturas ex semetipsa.

36 Sculpsit quoque in tabulatis illis quae erant ex aere, et in angulis, cherubim, et leones, et palmas, quasi in similitudinem hominis stantis, ut non caelata, sed apposita per circuitum viderentur.

37 In hunc modum fecit decem bases, fusura una, et mensura, sculpturaque consimili.

38 Fecit quoque decem luteres aeneos: quadraginta batos capiebat luter unus, eratque quatuor cubitorum: singulos quoque luteres per singulas, id est, decem bases, posuit.

39 Et constituit decem bases, quinque ad dexteram partem templi, et quinque ad sinistram: mare autem posuit ad dexteram partem templi contra orientem ad meridiem.

40 Fecit ergo Hiram lebetes, et scutras, et hamulas, et perfecit omne opus regis Salomonis in templo Domini.

41 Columnas duas, et funiculos capitellorum super capitella columnarum duos: et retiacula duo, ut operirent duos funiculos qui erant super capita columnarum.

42 Et malogranata quadringenta in duobus retiaculis: duos versus malogranatorum in retiaculis singulis, ad operiendos funiculos capitellorum qui erant super capita columnarum.

43 Et bases decem, et luteres decem super bases.

44 Et mare unum, et boves duodecim subter mare.

45 Et lebetes, et scutras, et hamulas, omnia vasa quae fecit Hiram regi Salomoni in domo Domini, de auricalco erant.

46 In campestri regione Jordanis fudit ea rex in argillosa terra, inter Sochoth et Sarthan.

47 Et posuit Salomon omnia vasa: propter multitudinem autem nimiam non erat pondus aeris.

48 Fecitque Salomon omnia vasa in domo Domini: altare aureum, et mensam super quam ponerentur panes propositionis, auream:

49 et candelabra aurea, quinque ad dexteram, et quinque ad sinistram contra oraculum, ex auro puro: et quasi lilii flores, et lucernas desuper aureas: et forcipes aureos,

50 et hydrias, et fuscinulas, et phialas, et mortariola, et thuribula, de auro purissimo: et cardines ostiorum domus interioris Sancti sanctorum, et ostiorum domus templi, ex auro erant.

51 Et perfecit omne opus quod faciebat Salomon in domo Domini, et intulit quae sanctificaverat David pater suus, argentum, et aurum, et vasa, reposuitque in thesauris domus Domini.

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1 Kings 7
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Solomon builds palaces

7 Now as for Solomon’s palace, it took thirteen years for him to complete its construction. 2 He built the Forest of Lebanon Palace one hundred fifty feet in length, seventy-five feet in width, and forty-five feet in height. It had four rows of cedar columns with cedar engravings above the columns. 3 The palace’s cedar roof stood above forty-five beams resting on the columns, fifteen beams to each row. 4 Three sets of window frames faced each other. 5 All the doorframes were rectangular, facing each other in three sets. 6 He made a porch with columns that was seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide. Another porch was in front of these with roofed columns in front of them.[a] 7 He made the throne room the Hall of Justice, where he would judge. It was covered with cedar from the lower to the upper levels. 8 The royal residence where Solomon lived was behind this hall. It had a similar design. Solomon also made a similar palace for his wife, Pharaoh’s daughter. 9 He built all these with the best stones cut to size, sawed with saws, back and front, from the foundation to the highest points and from the outer boundary to the great courtyard. 10 The foundation was laid with large stones of high quality, some of fifteen feet and some of twelve feet. 11 Above them were high-quality stones cut to measure, as well as cedar. 12 The surrounding great courtyard had three rows of cut stones and a row of trimmed cedar just like the inner courtyard of the Lord’s temple and its porch.

Solomon’s temple equipment

13 Then King Solomon sent a message and brought Hiram from Tyre. 14 Hiram’s mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was a Tyrian skilled in bronze work. He was amazingly skillful in the techniques and knowledge for doing all kinds of work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.

15 He[b] cast two bronze pillars. Each one was twenty-seven feet high and required a cord of eighteen feet to reach around it.[c] 16 He made two capitals of cast bronze for the tops of the columns. They were each seven and a half feet high. 17 He made an intricate network of chains for the capitals on top of the columns, seven for each capital. 18 He made the pillars and two rows of pomegranates for each network to adorn each of the capitals. 19 The capitals on top of the columns in the porch were made like lilies, each six feet high. 20 Above the round-shaped part and next to the network were two hundred pomegranates. These were placed in rows around both of the capitals on top of the columns. 21 He set up the columns at the temple’s porch. He named the south column Jachin. The north column he named Boaz. 22 After putting the lily shapes on top of the columns, he was finished with the columns.

23 He also made a tank of cast metal called the Sea. It was circular in shape, fifteen feet from rim to rim, seven and a half feet high, forty-five feet in circumference. 24 Under the rim were two rows of gourds completely encircling it, ten every eighteen inches, each cast in its mold. 25 The Sea rested on twelve oxen with their backs toward the center, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. 26 The Sea was as thick as the width of a hand. Its rim was shaped like a cup or an open lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.[d]

27 He also made ten bronze stands. Each was six feet long, six feet wide, and four and a half feet high. 28 This is how each stand was made: There were panels connected between the legs. 29 Lions, bulls, and winged otherworldly creatures appeared on the panels between the legs. On the legs above and below the lions and bulls were wreaths on panels hanging off the stands. 30 There were four bronze wheels with bronze axles for each stand. There were four feet and supports cast for each basin with wreaths on their sides.[e] 31 Inside the bowl was an opening eighteen inches deep. The opening was round, measuring twenty-seven inches, with engravings. The panels of the stands were square rather than round. 32 There were four wheels beneath the panels. The axles of the wheels were attached to the stand. Each wheel was twenty-seven inches in height. 33 The construction of the wheels resembled chariot wheels. The axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all made of cast metal. 34 There was a handle on each of the four corners of every stand, projecting from the side of the stand. 35 The top of the stand had a band running around the perimeter that was nine inches deep. The stand had its own supports and panels. 36 On the surfaces of the supports and panels he carved winged otherworldly creatures, lions, and palm trees with wreaths everywhere.[f] 37 In this manner he made ten stands, each one cast in a single mold of the same size and shape.

38 He made ten bronze washbasins, each able to hold forty baths.[g] Every washbasin was six feet across, and there was one for each of the ten stands. 39 He placed five stands on the south of the temple and five on the north of the temple. He placed the Sea at the southeast corner of the temple.

40 Hiram made the basins, shovels, and bowls.

And so Hiram finished his work on the Lord’s temple for King Solomon:

41 two columns;

two circular capitals on top of the columns;

two networks, adorning the two circular capitals on top of the columns;

42 four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, with two rows of pomegranates for each network that adorned the two circular capitals on top of the columns;

43 ten stands with ten basins on them;

44 one Sea;

twelve oxen beneath the Sea;

45 and the pots, shovels, and bowls.

All the equipment that Hiram made for King Solomon for the Lord’s temple was made from polished bronze. 46 The king cast it in clay molds in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan. 47 Due to the very large number of objects, Solomon didn’t even try to weigh the bronze.

48 Solomon also made all the equipment for the Lord’s temple: the gold altar; the gold table for the bread of the presence; 49 the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right and five on the left in front of the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold; 50 the cups, wick trimmers, bowls, ladles, and censers of pure gold; and the gold sockets for the doors to the most holy place and for the doors to the main hall. 51 When all King Solomon’s work on the Lord’s temple was finished, he brought the silver, gold, and all the objects his father David had dedicated and put them in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple.

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:6 Heb uncertain
  2. 1 Kings 7:15 Either Solomon or Hiram; this ambiguity continues in the following verses, but cf 1 Kgs 7:1, 8, 13; 1 Kgs 7:40.
  3. 1 Kings 7:15 Or the second; cf Jer 52:21
  4. 1 Kings 7:26 One bath is approximately twenty quarts or five gallons.
  5. 1 Kings 7:30 Heb uncertain
  6. 1 Kings 7:36 Heb uncertain
  7. 1 Kings 7:38 One bath is approximately twenty quarts or five gallons.
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