1 Kings 7:1-12

1599 Geneva Bible

7 1 The building of the house of Solomon. 15 The excellent workmanship of Hiram in the pieces which he made for the Temple.

¹ But Solomon was building his own house ^(A)thirteen years, and ^[a]finished all his house.

² He built also an house ^[b]called the forest of Lebanon, an hundred cubits long, and fifty cubits broad, and thirty cubits high, upon four rows of Cedar pillars: and Cedar beams were laid upon the pillars.

³ And it was covered above with cedar upon the beams, that lay on the forty and five pillars, fifteen in a row.

⁴ And the windows were in three rows, and window was ^[c]against window in three ranks.

⁵ And all the doors, and the side posts with the windows were foursquare, and window was over against window in three ranks.

⁶ And he made a porch of pillars fifty cubits long, and thirty cubits broad, and the porch was before ^[d]them, even before them were thirty pillars.

⁷ ¶ Then he made a porch ^[e]for the throne, where he judged, even a porch of judgment, and it was ceiled with cedar from pavement to pavement.

⁸ And in his house where he dwelt was another hall more inward than the porch which was of the same work. Also Solomon made an house for Pharaoh’s daughter (^(B)whom he had taken to wife) like unto this porch.

⁹ All these were ^[f]of costly stones, hewed by measure, and sawed with saws within and without, from the foundation unto ^[g]the stones of an ^[h]hand breadth, and on the outside to the great court.

¹⁰ And the foundation was of costly stones, and great stones, even of stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

^11 [i]Above also were costly stones squared by rule, and boards of cedar.

¹² ¶ And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams: ^[j]so was it to the inner court of the house of the Lord, and to the porch of the house.