13King Solomon sent and took Hiram from Tyre.14He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a Tyrian man, an artificer in bronze. He was filled with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge to do all work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.15He cast two bronze pillars. The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a cord of twelve cubits encircled the second pillar.16He made two capitals to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the second capital was five cubits.17He made latticework nets and chain tassels for the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars: seven for the one capital and seven for the second capital.18He made the pillars with two rows around the one latticework to cover the capitals that were on the heads of the pomegranates, and he did the same for the second capital.19The capitals on the tops of the pillars were lily work in the Hall, four cubits high.20The capitals on the two pillars were also above, close to the belly beside the latticework, and two hundred pomegranates in rows around the second capital.21He set up the pillars at the Hall of the temple. He set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.22Lily work was on the tops of the pillars, and the work on the pillars was finished.23He made the sea of cast metal, ten cubits from lip to lip, round all around, five cubits its height, and a line of thirty cubits went around it.24Gourds beneath its lip went around it for ten cubits, encircling the sea; two rows of gourds were cast with it.25It stood upon twelve cattle, three facing north, three facing sea, three facing Negeb, and three facing east, with the sea upon them from above, and all their backs toward the house.26Its thickness was a handbreadth; its rim was like the rim of a cup, a lily blossom. It held two thousand baths.27He made ten bronze stands. Each stand was four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.28This was the construction of the stands: they had panels, and panels between the frames.29On the panels between the frames were lions, cattle, and cherubim, and on the frames above and below the lions and cattle were wreaths of descending work.30Four bronze wheels belonged to the one base, and bronze axles, and its four supports were shoulders for them beneath the basin; the supports were cast from beside each man with wreaths.31Its lip inside the capital and above was a cubit, and its lip was round, the work of a stand, a cubit and a half; and also upon its lip were engravings, and its perimeters were square, not round.32The four wheels were beneath the panels, and the axles of the wheels were in the stand. Each wheel was a cubit and a half high.33The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel; their hands, their backs, their spokes, and their hubs, the whole was cast.34Four supports were at the four corners of each stand; the supports came from the stand itself.35At the top of each stand was a round band half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand were its supports and panels from the stand.36He engraved on the panels of its supports and on its borders cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths all around.37Like this he made the ten bases: one casting, one measure, one shape for all of them.38He made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits; each basin rested on one of the ten stands.39He placed the stands, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house; and the sea he placed on the right side of the house, eastward, opposite the Negeb.40Hiram made the basins, the shovels, and the bowls. Hiram finished all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of the LORD.41The two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals on the tops of the pillars.42The four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for the one latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the faces of the pillars.43The ten stands and the ten basins on the stands.44The one sea and the twelve cattle under the sea.45The pots, the shovels, the bowls, and all the articles, these that Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD, were smooth bronze.46The king cast them in the Plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.47Solomon left all the articles unweighed because there was so much bronze that its weight could not be determined.48Solomon made all the articles for the house of the LORD: the golden altar and the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence.49The five lampstands on the right and the five lampstands on the left before the inner sanctuary were of pure gold, along with the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs of gold.50The basins, the snuffers, the bowls, the ladles, and the censers were of pure gold, as were the gold hinges for the doors of the inner house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the main hall.51When all the work that King Solomon did for the house of the LORD was finished, Solomon brought in the things his father David had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the articles—and placed them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.