1 Kings 7 | King James Version

King James Version

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. 4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. 5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks. 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 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 within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh' 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. 14 He was a widow' 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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: 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; 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. 46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan. 47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed , because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out. 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. 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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Salomo bygger sitt palats

1 Sedan byggde Salomo sitt eget palats, som det däremot tog tretton år att färdigställa. 2 Ett av rummen i palatset kallades Libanonskogens sal. Det var mycket stort, fyrtiosex meter långt, tjugotre meter brett och tretton och en halv meter högt. De stora takbjälkarna av cederträ vilade på fyra rader av cederpelare, 3-4 fyrtiofem bjälkar, femton i varje rad. Fönster var placerade mitt emot varandra i rader om tre. 5 Alla dörröppningar var fyrkantiga, och i den främre delen fanns tre dörrar i varje grupp, mitt emot varandra. 6 Ett annat rum kallades Pelarhallen. Den var tjugotvå meter lång och tretton och en halv meter bred och hade ett förrum med en baldakin som hölls uppe av pelare. 7 Där fanns också tronrummet, eller domsalen, där Salomo satt när han utövade sitt ämbete att döma folket. Det hade panel av cederträ från golv till tak. 8 Rummen som han själv skulle bo i längre in i byggnaden var av liknande utseende. Han byggde också ett palats i samma stil åt Faraos dotter, som var en av hans hustrur. 9 Alla dessa byggnader uppfördes av stora stenblock av dyrbar sten, som huggits ut efter mått. 10 Grundstenarna var tre till fyra meter långa. 11 Stenarna i murarna var också uthuggna efter mått, och över dem låg bommar av cederträ, 12 precis som på den inre förgårdsmuren vid templet och palatsets förhus.

Templets utrustning

13-14 Salomo lät sända bud efter Hiram från Tyrus, känd som en skicklig och begåvad konstnär, och han kom nu för att utföra alla kung Salomos arbeten som skulle göras i koppar. Han var son till en änka av Naftalis stam och en kopparsmed från Tyrus. 15 Hiram tillverkade två pelare av koppar, var och en åtta meter hög och med en omkrets av cirka fem meter. 16-22 På varje pelare gjorde han ett liljeformat kapitäl av gjuten koppar, två och en halv meter högt och två meter brett. Varje kapitäl var dekorerat med sju kedjor i form av hängprydnader och fyrahundra granatäpplen i två rader. Hiram ställde dessa pelare vid templets ingång. Den södra kallades Jakin och den norra Boas. 23 Sedan gjorde Hiram ett väldigt kopparfat, två och en halv meter högt, fem meter i diameter och femton meter i omkrets. 24 Runt dess kant fanns två rader av utsirningar med tre till sex centimeters mellanrum utmed hela fatet. 25 Det vilade på tolv oxar av koppar, tre vända mot norr, tre mot väster, tre mot söder och tre mot öster. 26 Fatets sidor var sju och en halv centimeter tjocka, och kanten var formad som kanten på en bägare. Fatet rymde 40.000 liter. 27-30 Därefter gjorde han tio flyttbara bäckenställ. De var ungefär två meter i fyrkant och en och en halv meter höga. Deras sidoplåtar var dekorerade med lejon, oxar och änglar. Under och över lejonen och oxarna fanns utsirade blomsterkransar. Vart och ett av dessa ställ hade fyra hjul av koppar med axlar av koppar. 31 Överst på varje ställ fanns en rund behållare, en halv meter hög. Dess mitt var skålformig, sjuttiofem centimeter djup, och utsidan var dekorerad med blomsterkransar. 32 Ställen hade fyra hjul, som satt under sidoplåtarna på hjulaxlar fästade i ställets hörn. Hjulen var sextiosex centimeter höga 33 och gjorda som vagnshjul, i alla delar gjutna i brons, axlar, ekrar, hjulringar och hjulnav. 34 I varje hörn fanns ett handtag, gjort i ett stycke med stället i övrigt. 35 Överst på varje ställ fanns en rund kant, tjugotvå centimeter hög, och hållare. 36 Keruber, lejon och palmträd omgivna av blomsterkransar var ingraverade på hållarnas ytor, där det fanns utrymme. 37 Alla tio ställen var gjutna exakt lika i samma form. 38 Till detta gjorde han tio fat av koppar som placerades på ställen. Varje fat var två meter i diameter och rymde 800 liter vatten. 39 Fem av ställen placerades i rummets södra del och fem i den norra. Det stora fatet stod i det hörn av templet som låg mot sydost. 40 Hiram gjorde dessutom öskar och skålar, och han slutförde allt det arbete med Herrens tempel som Salomo hade gett honom i uppdrag att göra. 41-46 Här följer en förteckning över de saker som Hiram tillverkade: Två pelare, ett kapitäl ovanpå varje pelare, nät som utsmyckning till de båda kapitälen, fyrahundra granatäpplen i två rader på nätet, för att täcka de båda kapitälen, tio rörliga ställ med tio fat, ett stort fat med tolv oxar som fot, kärl, skovlar och skålar. Allt detta tillverkades av polerad koppar och göts på Jordanslätten mellan Suckot och Saretan. 47 Den totala vikten av allt detta är obekant, för det var alldeles för mycket att kunna vägas. 48 Alla andra föremål som skulle finnas i templet gjordes av rent guld. Detta gällde alltså altaret, bordet för skådebröden, 49 ljusstakarna (fem på högra sidan och fem på vänstra och framför det allraheligaste), blommorna, lamporna, tängerna, 50 faten, knivarna, skålarna, fyrfaten, gångjärnen till dörrarna in till det allraheligaste och till templets huvudingång. Allt detta gjordes alltså av rent guld. 51 När templet slutligen var färdigt, tog Salomo silvret, guldet och alla de kärl som hans far David hade invigt för detta ändamål och lade dem i templets skattkammare.