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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
And the palace where Solomon would live, set further back, was of similar construction. He also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
- 1 Kings 7:8
All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
- 1 Kings 7:9
The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.
- 1 Kings 7:10
Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:11
He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
- 1 Kings 7:15
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
- 1 Kings 7:16
For the capitals on top of the pillars he made a network of lattice, with wreaths of chainwork, seven for each capital.
- 1 Kings 7:17
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
He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
- 1 Kings 7:23