1 Kings 7:8-24

New International Version

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.^(A)

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^[a] and some eight.^{[b] 11} Above were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams. ¹² The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses^(B) 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^(C)(D)

¹³ King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,^{[c](E) 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,^(F) with understanding and with knowledge to do all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all^(G) the work assigned to him.

¹⁵ He cast two bronze pillars,^(H) each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.^{[d] 16} He also made two capitals^(I) of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits^[e] 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^[f] encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars.^[g] 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^[h] high. ²⁰ On the capitals of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped part next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates^(J) in rows all around. ²¹ He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin^[i] and the one to the north Boaz.^{[j](K) 22} The capitals on top were in the shape of lilies. And so the work on the pillars^(L) was completed.

²³ He made the Sea^(M) of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line^(N) of thirty cubits^[k] 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.