1 Salomão levou treze anos para terminar a construção do seu palácio.

2 Ele construiu o Palácio da Floresta do Líbano com quarenta e cinco metros de comprimento, vinte e dois metros e meio de largura e treze metros e meio de altura, sustentado por quatro fileiras de colunas de cedro sobre as quais apoiavam-se vigas de cedro aparelhadas.

3 O forro que ficava sobre as vigas que se apoiavam nas colunas era de cedro, eram quarenta e cinco vigas, quinze por fileira.

4 Havia janelas dispostas de três em três, uma em frente da outra.

5 Todas as portas tinham estrutura retangular; ficavam na parte da frente, dispostas de três em três, uma em frente da outra.

6 Fez um pórtico de colunas de vinte e dois metros e meio de comprimento e treze metros e meio de largura. Em frente havia outro pórtico com colunas e uma cobertura que se estendia além das colunas.

7 Construiu a Sala do Trono, isto é, a Sala da Justiça, onde iria julgar, e revestiu-a de cedro desde o teto até o chão.

8 E o palácio para sua moradia, no outro pátio, tinha um formato semelhante. Salomão fez também um palácio como esse para a filha do faraó, com quem tinha se casado.

9 Todas essas construções, desde o lado externo até o grande pátio e do alicerce até o beiral, foram feitas de pedra de qualidade superior, cortadas sob medida e desbastadas com uma serra nos lados interno e externo.

10 Os alicerces foram lançados com pedras grandes de qualidade superior, algumas medindo quatro metros e meio e outras três metros e sessenta centímetros.

11 Na parte de cima havia pedras de qualidade superior, cortadas sob medida, e vigas de cedro.

12 O grande pátio era cercado por um muro de três camadas de pedras lavradas e uma camada de vigas de cedro aparelhadas, da mesma maneira que o pátio interior do templo do Senhor, com o seu pórtico.

13 O rei Salomão enviara mensageiros a Tiro e trouxera Hurão,

14 filho de uma viúva da tribo de Naftali e de um cidadão de Tiro, um artífice em bronze. Hurão era extremamente hábil, experiente e sabia fazer todo tipo de trabalho em bronze. Apresentou-se ao rei Salomão e fez depois todo o trabalho que lhe foi designado.

15 Ele fundiu duas colunas de bronze, cada uma com oito metros e dez centímetros de altura e cinco metros e quarenta centímetros de circunferência, medidas pelo fio apropriado.

16 Também fez dois capitéis de bronze fundido para colocar no alto das colunas; cada capitel tinha dois metros e vinte e cinco centímetros de altura.

17 Conjuntos de correntes entrelaçadas ornamentavam os capitéis no alto das colunas, sete em cada capitel.

18 Fez também romãs em duas fileiras que circundavam cada conjunto de correntes para cobrir os capitéis no alto das colunas. Fez o mesmo com cada capitel.

19 Os capitéis no alto das colunas do pórtico tinham o formato de lírios, com um metro e oitenta centímetros de altura.

20 Nos capitéis das duas colunas, acima da parte que tinha formato de taça, perto do conjunto de correntes, havia duzentas romãs enfileiradas ao redor.

21 Ele levantou as colunas na frente do pórtico do templo. Deu o nome de Jaquim à coluna ao sul e de Boaz à coluna ao norte.

22 Os capitéis no alto tinham a forma de lírios. E assim completou-se o trabalho das colunas.

23 Fez o tanque de metal fundido, redondo, medindo quatro metros e meio de diâmetro e dois metros e vinte e cinco centímetros de altura. Era preciso um fio de treze metros e meio para medir a sua circunferência.

24 Abaixo da borda e ao seu redor havia duas fileiras de frutos, de cinco em cinco centímetros, fundidas numa só peça com o tanque.

25 O tanque ficava sobre doze touros, três voltados para o norte, três para o oeste, três para o sul e três para o leste. Ficava em cima deles, e as pernas traseiras dos touros eram voltadas para o centro.

26 A espessura do tanque era de quatro dedos, e sua borda era como a borda de um cálice, como uma flor de lírio. Tinha capacidade de quarenta mil litros.

27 Também fez dez carrinhos de bronze; cada um tinha um metro e oitenta centímetros de comprimento e de largura, e um metro e trinta e cinco centímetros de altura.

28 Os carrinhos eram feitos assim: Tinham placas laterais presas a armações.

29 Nas placas, entre as armações, havia figuras de leões, bois e querubins: Sobre as armações, acima e abaixo dos leões e bois, havia grinaldas de metal batido.

30 Em cada carrinho havia quatro rodas de bronze com eixos de bronze, cada um com uma bacia apoiada em quatro pés e fundida ao lado de cada grinalda.

31 Do lado de dentro do carrinho havia uma abertura circular com quarenta e cinco centímetros de profundidade. Essa abertura era redonda, e com sua base media setenta centímetros. Havia esculturas em torno da abertura. As placas dos carrinhos eram quadradas, e não redondas.

32 As quatro rodas ficavam sob as placas, e os eixos das rodas ficavam presos ao estrado. O diâmetro de cada roda era de setenta centímetros.

33 As rodas eram feitas como rodas de carros; os eixos, os aros, os raios e os cubos eram todos de metal fundido.

34 Havia quatro cabos que se projetavam do carrinho, um em cada canto.

35 No alto do carrinho havia uma lâmina circular de vinte e dois centímetros de comprimento. Os apoios e as placas estavam fixados no alto do carrinho.

36 Ele esculpiu figuras de querubins, leões e tamareiras na superfície dos apoios e nas placas, em cada espaço disponível, com grinaldas ao redor.

37 Foi assim que fez os dez carrinhos. Foram todos fundidos nos mesmos moldes e eram idênticos no tamanho e na forma.

38 Depois ele fez dez pias de bronze, cada uma com capacidade de oitocentos litros, medindo um metro e oitenta centímetros de diâmetro; uma pia para cada um dos dez carrinhos.

39 Ele pôs cinco carrinhos no lado sul do templo e cinco no lado norte. Pôs o tanque no lado sul, no canto sudeste do templo.

40 Também fez os jarros, as pás e as bacias para aspersão. Assim, Hurão completou todo o trabalho de que fora encarregado pelo rei Salomão, no templo do Senhor:

41 as duas colunas; os dois capitéis em forma de taça no alto das colunas; os dois conjuntos de correntes que decoravam os dois capitéis;

42 as quatrocentas romãs para os dois conjuntos de correntes, sendo duas fileiras de romãs para cada conjunto;

43 os dez carrinhos com as suas dez pias;

44 o tanque e os doze touros debaixo dele;

45 e os jarros, as pás e as bacias de aspersão. Todos esses utensílios que Hurão fez a pedido do rei Salomão para o templo do Senhor, eram de bronze polido.

46 Foi na planície do Jordão, entre Sucote e Zaretã, que o rei os mandou fundir, em moldes de barro.

47 Salomão não mandou pesar esses utensílios, tão grande era o seu número que o peso do bronze não foi determinado.

48 Além desses, Salomão mandou fazer também todos estes outros utensílios para o templo do Senhor: o altar de ouro; a mesa de ouro sobre a qual ficavam os pães da Presença;

49 os candelabros de ouro puro, cinco à direita e cinco à esquerda, em frente do santuário interno; as flores, as lâmpadas e as tenazes de ouro;

50 as bacias, os cortadores de pavio, as bacias para aspersão, as tigelas e os incensários; e as dobradiças de ouro para as portas da sala interna, o Lugar Santíssimo, e também para as portas do átrio principal.

51 Terminada toda a obra que Salomão realizou para o templo do Senhor, ele trouxe tudo que seu pai havia consagrado e colocou junto com os tesouros do templo do Senhor: a prata, o ouro e os utensílios.

1 But Solomon was building his own house for thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

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

4 And there were windows in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers.

5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and window was opposite window in three tiers.

6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length of it was fifty cubits, and the breadth of it thirty cubits: and the porch was in front of them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were in front of them.

7 Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

8 And his house where he dwelt had another court inside the porch, which was of like workmanship. Solomon made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken as his wife, like unto this porch.

9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of cut stones, sawed with saws, inside and out, even from the foundation unto the eaves, and also on the outside toward the great court.

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

11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of cut stones, and cedars.

12 And the great court round about was with three rows of cut stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

13 And king Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.

14 He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in bronze. And he came to king Solomon, and did all his work.

15 For he cast two pillars of bronze, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each.

16 And he made two capitals of molten bronze, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits:

17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.

18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the capitals that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other capital.

19 And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

20 And the capitals upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the rounded projection which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other capital.

21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

22 And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and its height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

24 And under the brim of it round about there were knobs compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knobs were cast in two rows, when it was cast.

25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hind parts were inward.

26 And it was a handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was shaped like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.

27 And he made ten stands of bronze; four cubits was the length of one stand, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

28 And the work of the stands was on this manner: they had panels, and the panels were between the frames:

29 And on the panels that were between the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim: and upon the frames there was a pedestal above: and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths made of hammered work.

30 And every stand had four bronze wheels, and axles of bronze: and the four corners thereof had supports: under the laver were molten supports, at the side of every wreath.

31 And the mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round like the shape of a pedestal, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were engravings with their panels, foursquare, not round.

32 And under the panels were four wheels; and the axles of the wheels were joined to the stand: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and a half.

33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axles, and their rims, and their hubs, and their spokes, were all molten.

34 And there were four supports to the four corners of each stand: and the supports were of one piece with the stand itself.

35 And on the top of the stand there was a round band half a cubit high: and on the top of the stand the frames thereof and the panels thereof were all one piece.

36 For on the plates of the frames thereof, and on the panels thereof, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the space of each one, and wreaths round about.

37 After this manner he made the ten stands: all of them were of the same casting, of the same measure, and the same shape.

38 Then made he ten lavers of bronze: each laver contained forty baths: and each laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten stands was one laver.

39 And he put five stands on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house toward the southeast.

40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he made for king Solomon for the house of the LORD:

41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars;

42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were upon the pillars;

43 And the ten stands, and ten lavers on the stands;

44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins: and all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright bronze.

46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were very many: neither was the weight of the bronze measured.

48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, on which was the showbread,

49 And the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the inner sanctuary, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,

50 And the bowls, and the wick trimmers, and the basins, and the ladles, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner room, the most holy place, and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

51 So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the furnishings, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.