1 Salomão também construiu para si um palácio e levou treze anos para terminá-lo.

2 Um dos edifícios que Salomão construiu se chamava Palácio da Floresta do Líbano. Media 45 metros de comprimento, 22,5 metros de largura e 13,5 metros de altura. Nele havia quatro fileiras de colunas de cedro, com grandes vigas de cedro assentadas sobre as colunas. 3 O teto do salão era de cedro e ficava acima das vigas, que eram sustentadas por colunas. Havia 45 vigas, dispostas em três fileiras com 15 vigas em cada uma. 4 Em cada lado do longo salão havia três fileiras de janelas, uma de frente para a outra. 5 Todas as portas e suas vergas tinham batentes retangulares e eram dispostas de três em três, uma de frente para a outra.

6 Salomão também construiu o Salão das Colunas, que media 22,5 metros de comprimento e 13,5 metros de largura. Tinha na frente uma varanda com colunas e uma cobertura acima delas.

7 Salomão construiu ainda a sala do trono, conhecida como Salão do Julgamento, onde se sentava para ouvir as questões a serem julgadas. A sala era revestida de madeira de cedro desde o piso até o teto. 8 A residência onde ele morava ficava em torno de um pátio atrás do Salão do Julgamento e era construída da mesma forma. Ele também construiu uma residência semelhante para a filha do faraó, com quem havia se casado.

9 Todos esses edifícios foram construídos com grandes blocos de pedra de alta qualidade, cortados na medida exata de todos os lados, do alicerce até o beiral do telhado, desde o lado externo até o grande pátio. 10 Algumas das grandes pedras do alicerce mediam 4,5 metros por 3,6 metros. 11 Por cima dos alicerces foram colocados blocos de pedra de alta qualidade, cortados sob medida, e vigas de cedro. 12 As paredes do grande pátio foram construídas com uma camada de vigas de cedro entre cada três camadas de pedras cortadas, como as paredes do pátio interno do templo do Senhor, com sua sala de entrada.

13 O rei Salomão mandou que viesse de Tiro um homem chamado Hirão. 14 Ele era israelita por parte de mãe, uma viúva da tribo de Naftali, e seu pai, originário de Tiro, havia sido artífice em bronze. Hirão era extremamente hábil e talentoso em qualquer obra em bronze e veio realizar todo o trabalho com metais para o rei Salomão.

15 Hirão fundiu duas colunas de bronze, cada uma com 8,1 metros de altura e 5,4 metros de circunferência. 16 Para o alto das colunas, fundiu capitéis de bronze, com 2,25 metros de altura cada um. 17 Cada capitel era enfeitado com sete conjuntos de correntes entrelaçadas. 18 Para enfeitar os capitéis no alto das colunas, fez duas fileiras de romãs ao redor desses conjuntos de correntes. 19 Os capitéis no alto das colunas da sala de entrada tinham forma de lírios e mediam 1,8 metro de altura. 20 Nos capitéis das duas colunas havia duzentas romãs dispostas em duas fileiras, perto da superfície arredondada e do conjunto de correntes entrelaçadas. 21 Hirão colocou as colunas na entrada do templo, uma à direita e outra à esquerda. À que estava à direita deu o nome de Jaquim; e à outra, à esquerda, deu o nome de Boaz. 22 Os capitéis no alto das colunas tinham a forma de lírios. E assim foi terminada a obra das colunas.

23 Depois, Hirão fundiu um grande tanque redondo, que chamaram de Mar. O tanque media 4,5 metros de uma borda à outra, 2,25 metros de profundidade e 13,5 metros de circunferência. 24 Logo abaixo da borda, tinha ao seu redor duas fileiras de frutos decorativos. Havia cerca de vinte frutos por metro em toda a circunferência, formando uma única peça de fundição com o tanque.

25 O tanque ficava apoiado sobre doze touros, todos voltados para fora: três voltados para o norte, três para o oeste, três para o sul e três para o leste. 26 As paredes do tanque tinham 8 centímetros de espessura, e sua borda se projetava para fora como uma taça, semelhante a um lírio. Tinha capacidade para cerca de 42 mil litros de água.

27 Hirão também fez dez bases móveis de bronze para levar água. Cada uma media 1,8 metro de comprimento, 1,8 metro de largura e 1,35 metro de altura. 28 Foram construídos com painéis laterais presos com travessões. 29 Tanto os painéis como os travessões eram enfeitados com entalhes de leões, bois e querubins. Acima e abaixo dos leões e bois havia guirlandas decorativas. 30 Cada uma das bases tinha quatro rodas de bronze e eixos de bronze. Nos cantos das bases, havia suportes para as pias de bronze; os suportes eram decorados, de cada lado, com entalhes de guirlandas. 31 Na parte superior de cada base havia um encaixe redondo para a bacia. Projetava-se 45 centímetros acima da parte superior da base, como um pedestal redondo, e sua abertura tinha 67,5 centímetros de um lado ao outro; do lado de fora, era enfeitada com entalhes de guirlandas. Os painéis das bases eram quadrados, e não redondos. 32 Sob os painéis ficavam as quatro rodas ligadas aos eixos que haviam sido fundidos como parte da base. As rodas tinham 67,5 centímetros de diâmetro 33 e eram semelhantes a rodas de carros de guerra. Os eixos, raios, aros e cubos das rodas eram todos de bronze fundido.

34 Em cada um dos quatro cantos da base havia alças, que também eram fundidas como parte da estrutura. 35 Em volta da parte superior de cada base havia uma borda com 22,5 centímetros de largura. Os suportes nos cantos e os painéis laterais eram fundidos com a base, como se fossem uma só peça. 36 Entalhes de querubins, leões e palmeiras enfeitavam os painéis e os suportes nos cantos em todos os espaços disponíveis, e havia guirlandas ao redor de tudo. 37 As dez bases tinham todas o mesmo tamanho e foram feitas iguais, cada uma fundida no mesmo molde.

38 Hirão também fez dez pias menores de bronze, uma para cada base móvel. Cada pia media 1,8 metro de diâmetro e tinha capacidade para cerca de 840 litros de água. 39 Ele colocou cinco bases do lado sul do templo e cinco do lado norte. O grande tanque de bronze chamado Mar foi colocado perto do canto sudeste do templo. 40 Também fez as bacias, pás e tigelas necessárias.

Assim, Hirão terminou tudo que o rei Salomão havia ordenado que ele fizesse para o templo do Senhor:

41 as duas colunas;

os dois capitéis em forma de taça no alto das colunas;

os dois conjuntos de correntes entrelaçadas que enfeitavam os capitéis;

42 as quatrocentas romãs penduradas nas correntes nos capitéis (duas fileiras de romãs para cada conjunto de correntes que enfeitavam os capitéis no alto das colunas);

43 as dez bases móveis para levar água com as dez pias;

44 o Mar e os doze bois debaixo dele;

45 os baldes das cinzas, as pás e as tigelas.

Hirão fez todos esses objetos de bronze polido para o templo do Senhor, conforme as instruções do rei Salomão. 46 O rei ordenou que fossem fundidos em moldes de barro no vale do Jordão, entre Sucote e Zaretã. 47 Salomão não pesou todos esses objetos, porque eram muitos; o peso do bronze não pôde ser medido.

48 Salomão também fez toda a mobília do templo do Senhor:

o altar de ouro;

a mesa de ouro para os pães da presença;

49 os candelabros de ouro maciço, cinco do lado direito e cinco do lado esquerdo, em frente ao lugar santíssimo;

os enfeites de flores, as lâmpadas e as tenazes, todos de ouro;

50 os baldes pequenos, os cortadores de pavio, as tigelas, as colheres e os incensários, todos de ouro maciço;

as dobradiças das portas de entrada para o lugar santíssimo e do salão principal do templo, revestidas com ouro.

51 Assim, o rei Salomão concluiu toda a sua obra no templo do Senhor. Então trouxe todos os presentes que seu pai, Davi, havia consagrado — a prata, o ouro e os diversos objetos — e os guardou na tesouraria do templo do Senhor.

1 Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 2 For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. 3 It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row. 4 There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks. 5 All the doors and posts were made square with beams; and window was facing window in three ranks. 6 He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them. 7 He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor. 8 His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch. 9 All these were of costly stones, even of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. 10 The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. 11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood. 12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

13 King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre. 14 He was the son of a widow 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 skill to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon and performed all his work. 15 For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them. 16 He made two capitals of molten bronze to set on 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 There were nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. 18 So he made the pillars; and there were two rows of pomegranates around the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and he did so for the other capital. 19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits. 20 There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital. 21 He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar and called its name Boaz. 22 On the tops of the pillars was lily work. So the work of the pillars was finished.

23 He made the molten sea ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. 24 Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. 25 It stood on 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 on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward. 26 It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

27 He made the ten bases of bronze. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height. 28 The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges; 29 and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work. 30 Every base had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze; and its four feet had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each. 31 Its opening within the capital and above was a cubit. Its opening was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening were engravings, and their panels were square, not round. 32 The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit. 33 The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all of cast metal. 34 There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself. 35 In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same. 36 On the plates of its supports and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around. 37 He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form. 38 He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths. Every basin measured four cubits. One basin was on every one of the ten bases. 39 He set the bases, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward and toward the south.

40 Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house: 41 the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; 42 the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars; 43 the ten bases; the ten basins on the bases; 44 the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea; 45 the pots; the shovels; and the basins. All of these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon in Yahweh’s house, were of burnished bronze. 46 The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan. 47 Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in Yahweh’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold; 49 and the lamp stands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold; 50 the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.

51 Thus all the work that king Solomon did in Yahweh’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the vessels—and put them in the treasuries of Yahweh’s house.