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1 Kings 7 Summary
Furnishings for the Temple
Solomon spends thirteen years building his own house and palace structures, including the house of the forest of Lebanon with rows of cedar pillars and windows, a throne porch for judging, and a house for Pharaoh's daughter. He summons Hiram of Tyre, a widow's son skilled in brass work, who casts two great brass pillars eighteen cubits high, with chapiters, pomegranates, and lily work. Hiram also makes a molten sea ten cubits across on twelve brass oxen, ten brass bases on wheels, lavers, shovels, and basins. Solomon makes the altar of gold, the table of showbread, five candlesticks of pure gold on each side before the oracle, and vessels of pure gold for the temple service.
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1 Kings 7:21
“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.”
1 Kings 7:23
“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.”
1 Kings 7:40
“And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:”
1 Kings 7:51
“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.”
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