Quotes about Design

He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.

And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.

All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.

He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.

For the capitals on top of the pillars he made a network of lattice, with wreaths of chainwork, seven for each capital.

Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.

And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.

And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.

The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.

Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.

He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.