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Salomão edifica um palácio

1 *1Rs 3.1;9.10;2Cr 8.1Salomão edificou a sua casa, levando treze anos para concluí-la. 2 *1Rs 10.17,21;2Cr 9.16Edificou a casa do bosque do Líbano, a qual tinha cem cúbitos de comprido, cinquenta de largo e trinta de alto, repousando sobre quatro ordens de colunas de cedro, com vigas de cedro sobre as colunas. 3 Por cima, a cobertura era de cedro, abrangendo as câmaras laterais em número de quarenta e cinco, quinze em cada ordem, as quais repousavam sobre as colunas. 4 Havia entradas para a luz em três ordens, e janela correspondia a janela em três fileiras. 5 Todas as portas e ombreiras eram de vigas em quadro; e janela correspondia a janela em três fileiras. 6 *1Rs 7.12O pórtico, que tinha cinquenta cúbitos de comprido, e trinta de largo, fê-lo de colunas; e, defronte delas, outro pórtico com colunas e *Ez 41.25-26degraus à entrada. 7 Fez também o Pórtico do Trono, onde julgasse, a saber, o Pórtico do Juízo, o *1Rs 6.15-16qual era coberto de cedro desde o soalho ao teto. 8 A sua casa de morada, em outro átrio por dentro do pórtico, era de obra semelhante. *1Rs 9.24;2Cr 8.11Fez também para a filha de Faraó *1Rs 3.1(a qual Salomão tomara por mulher) uma casa semelhante a este pórtico.

9 Todos esses edifícios, por dentro e por fora, eram de pedra de preço, a saber, de pedras cortadas sob medida, serradas à serra desde os fundamentos até o cimo das paredes, e por fora até o grande átrio. 10 Os fundamentos eram de pedras de preço, pedras grandes, de dez e de oito cúbitos, 11 e, por cima delas, pedras de preço, cortadas sob medida, e madeira de cedro. 12 *1Rs 6.36Ao redor do grande átrio, havia três ordens de pedras cortadas e uma ordem de vigas de cedro, tais como o átrio interior da Casa de Jeová *1Rs 6.6e o pórtico da casa.

Diversas obras de Hirão para o templo

13 *2Cr 2.13-14Enviou o rei Salomão e mandou trazer de Tiro a Hirão, 14 *2Cr 2.14que era filho duma mulher viúva da tribo de Naftali, e dum homem de Tiro, que trabalhava em bronze. Hirão *Êx 31.3-5;35.31era cheio de sabedoria, de entendimento e de ciência para fazer toda sorte de obras de bronze. Veio ter com o rei Salomão e *2Cr 4.11-16executou todas as suas obras. 15 Pois formou *2Rs 25.17as duas colunas de bronze, tendo cada uma delas a altura de *1Rs 7.41dezoito cúbitos, e uma circunferência que correspondia a uma linha de doze cúbitos. 16 Fez também dois capitéis de bronze fundido para os pôr sobre o alto das colunas; um capitel tinha cinco cúbitos de altura, e o outro capitel tinha também cinco cúbitos de altura. 17 Havia redes de malhas e grinaldas de cadeias, para os capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas: sete para um capitel e sete para o outro. 18 Fez as colunas, e havia duas ordens de romãs ao redor, por cima duma rede para cobrir os capitéis que estavam no alto das colunas; assim também fez para o outro capitel. 19 Os capitéis que estavam no alto das colunas, no pórtico na parte que figuravam lírios, tinham quatro cúbitos. 20 Perto da parte globular, próximo à rede, os capitéis que estavam em cima sobre as duas colunas, tinham *1Rs 7.42;2Cr 3.16duzentas romãs, dispostas em ordens ao redor sobre um e outro capitel. 21 *2Cr 3.17Levantou as colunas no pórtico do templo; tendo levantado a coluna direita, pôs-lhe o nome de Jaquim; e, tendo levantado a coluna esquerda, pôs-lhe o nome de Boaz. 22 O trabalho figurando lírios estava em cima das colunas. Assim se acabou a obra das colunas.

O mar de fundição

23 *2Cr 4.2Fez também o *2Rs 16.17;25.13mar de fundição de dez cúbitos duma borda à outra, perfeitamente redondo, e de altura de cinco cúbitos; a sua circunferência correspondia a uma linha de trinta cúbitos. 24 Por baixo da sua borda, havia *1Rs 6.18saliências em número de dez por cúbito, que cingiam o mar; as saliências estavam em duas ordens e fundidas, quando o mar foi fundido. 25 *Jr 52.20Firmava-se sobre doze bois, três dos quais olhavam para o norte; três, para o ocidente; três, para o sul; e três, para o oriente. O mar lhes ficava por cima, e todas as partes posteriores dos seus corpos estavam para a banda de dentro. 26 A grossura do mar era dum palmo; e a sua borda foi feita como a dum copo, como a flor dum lírio. Ele levava dois mil batos.

As bases de bronze

27 *1Rs 7.38;2Rs 25.13;2Cr 4.14Fez também dez bases de bronze; cada uma tinha quatro cúbitos de comprido, quatro de largo e três de alto. 28 A obra das bases era a seguinte: tinham elas almofadas entre as junturas; 29 sobre as almofadas que estavam entre as junturas havia leões, bois e querubins; nas junturas da parte de cima havia uma projeção, e debaixo dos leões e dos bois havia festões pendentes. 30 Cada base tinha quatro rodas de bronze e eixos de bronze; os seus quatro pés tinham uns como ombrinhos fundidos, que, tendo festões ao lado, estavam debaixo do lavatório. 31 A abertura na parte superior da base que recebia o capitel era dum cúbito; e a abertura no capitel era redonda, como a obra dum pedestal, e dum cúbito e meio, tendo a sua borda entalhes, cujas almofadas eram quadradas, não redondas. 32 Debaixo das almofadas, estavam as quatro rodas, cujos eixos descansavam na base; cada roda tinha cúbito e meio de altura. 33 As rodas eram como as dum carro; os seus eixos, as suas pinas, os seus raios e os seus cubos, tudo era fundido. 34 Aos quatro cantos de cada base, havia quatro ombrinhos que faziam parte das mesmas. 35 No alto da base, havia um cinto redondo, que tinha meio cúbito de alto, e, sobre o topo da mesma, os seus esteios e as suas almofadas formavam uma só peça com ela. 36 Nas placas dos seus esteios e nas almofadas, gravou querubins, leões e palmeiras, segundo o espaço que havia em cada uma, com festões ao redor. 37 *2Cr 4.14Deste modo fez as dez bases; todas tinham a mesma fundição, a mesma medida e a mesma forma.

38 *2Cr 4.6Fez também dez lavatórios de bronze; cada lavatório levava quarenta batos e era de quatro cúbitos; e, sobre cada uma das dez bases, estava um lavatório. 39 Pôs as dez bases, cinco ao lado direito e cinco ao lado esquerdo da casa; e pôs o mar ao lado direito da casa, da banda oriental, na direção do sul.

Os lavatórios e outros utensílios para o templo

40 Fez também Hirão os lavatórios, e as pás, e as bacias. Acabou Hirão de fazer toda a obra que executou para o rei Salomão na Casa de Jeová: 41 as duas colunas, e os dois globos dos capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas; *1Rs 7.17-18as duas redes para cobrir os dois globos dos capitéis que estavam sobre o alto das colunas; 42 *1Rs 7.20as quatrocentas romãs para cobrir as duas redes: duas ordens de romãs para cada rede, para cobrir os dois globos dos capitéis que estavam sobre as colunas; 43 as dez bases e os dez lavatórios sobre as bases; 44 *1Rs 7.23,25o mar com os doze bois por baixo; 45 os caldeirões, e as pás, e as bacias; todos esses vasos que fez Hirão para o rei Salomão na Casa de Jeová eram de bronze polido. 46 *2Cr 4.17O rei os fez fundir na planície do Jordão, numa terra argilosa entre *Js 13.27Sucote e *Js 3.16Zaretã. 47 Deixou Salomão de pesar todos os vasos devido ao seu excessivo número; *1Cr 22.3,14não se averiguou o peso de bronze.

48 Fez Salomão todos os vasos que estavam na Casa de Jeová: *Êx 37.10-29;2Cr 4.8o altar de ouro, e a mesa sobre a qual estavam os pães da proposição, de ouro; 49 os candeeiros, cinco à direita e cinco à esquerda, diante do oráculo, de ouro puro; *Êx 25.31-38as flores, as lâmpadas e as tenazes, de ouro; 50 as taças, os apagadores, as bacias, as colheres e *Êx 27.3;2Rs 25.15os braseiros, de ouro puro; e de ouro as dobradiças para as portas da casa interior, para as do Santo dos Santos e para as da casa, isto é, do templo.

51 *2Cr 5.1Assim se acabou toda a obra que o rei Salomão mandou fazer na Casa de Jeová. *2Sm 8.11;2Cr 5.1Salomão meteu nela as coisas que seu pai Davi tinha dedicado, a saber, a prata, e o ouro e os vasos, que depositou nos tesouros da Casa de Jeová.

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

2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.*7.3 beams: Heb. ribs 4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.*7.4 light was…: Heb. sight against sight 5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.*7.5 doors…: or, spaces and pillars were square in prospect

6 And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.*7.6 before them: or, according to 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.*7.7 from…: Heb. from floor to floor

8 And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch. 9 All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so 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 hewed stones, and cedars. 12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed 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 fetched Hiram out of Tyre.*7.13 Hiram: also called, Huram 14 He was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.*7.14 a widow’s…: Heb. the son of a widow woman 15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.*7.15 cast: Heb. fashioned 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: 17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter. 18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter. 19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits. 20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter. 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.*7.21 Jachin: that is, He shall establish*7.21 Boaz: that is, In it is strength 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 his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.*7.23 from…: Heb. from his brim to his brim 24 And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops 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 hinder parts were inward. 26 And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.

27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it. 28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges: 29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. 30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition. 31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round. 32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.*7.32 joined…: Heb. in the base 33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten. 34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself. 35 And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same. 36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.*7.36 proportion: Heb. nakedness 37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.

38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver. 39 And he put five bases 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 eastward over against the south.*7.39 side: Heb. shoulder

40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:*7.40 And Hiram: Heb. And Hirom 41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; 42 And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;*7.42 upon…: Heb. upon the face of the pillars 43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; 45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.*7.45 bright: Heb. made bright or, scoured 46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.*7.46 in…: Heb. in the thickness of the ground 47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.*7.47 because…: Heb. for the exceeding multitude*7.47 found: Heb. searched

48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was, 49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold, 50 And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.*7.50 censers: Heb. ash pans 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 vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.*7.51 things…: Heb. holy things of David