Quotes about Structure
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:10
The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.
- 1 Kings 6:34
The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.
- 1 Kings 7:3
All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.
- 1 Kings 7:5
Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
- 1 Kings 7:6
The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.
- 1 Kings 7:10
He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
- 1 Kings 7:15
Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.
- 1 Kings 7:18
On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.
- 1 Kings 7:20
Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.
- 1 Kings 7:21
And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.
- 1 Kings 7:22
The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.
- 1 Kings 7:25