7. The Throne Room, also called the Hall of Judgement, where Solomon decided cases, had cedar panels from the floor to the rafters.
8. Solomon's own quarters, in another court behind the Hall of Judgement, were made like the other buildings. He also built the same kind of house for his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt.
9. All these buildings and the great court were made of fine stones from the foundations to the eaves. The stones were prepared at the quarry and cut to measure, with their inner and outer sides trimmed with saws.
10. The foundations were made of large stones prepared at the quarry, some of them 3.5 metres long and others four metres long.
11. On top of them were other stones, cut to measure, and cedar beams.
12. The palace court, the inner court of the Temple, and the entrance room of the Temple had walls with one layer of cedar beams for every three layers of cut stones.
13. King Solomon sent for a man named Huram, a craftsman living in the city of Tyre, who was skilled in bronze work.
14. His father, who was no longer living, was from Tyre, and had also been a skilled bronze craftsman; his mother was from the tribe of Naphtali. Huram was an intelligent and experienced craftsman. He accepted King Solomon's invitation to be in charge of all the bronze work.
15. Huram cast two bronze columns, each one eight metres tall and 5.3 metres in circumference, and placed them at the entrance of the Temple.
16. He also made two bronze capitals, each one 2.2 metres tall, to be placed on top of the columns.
17. The top of each column was decorated with a design of interwoven chains,
18. and two rows of bronze pomegranates.
19. The capitals were shaped like lilies, 1.8 metres tall,
20. and were placed on a rounded section which was above the chain design. There were 200 pomegranates in two rows round each capital.
21. Huram placed these two bronze columns in front of the entrance of the Temple: the one on the south side was named Jachin, and the one on the north was named Boaz.
22. The lily-shaped bronze capitals were on top of the columns.And so the work on the columns was completed.
23. Huram made a round tank of bronze, 2.2 metres deep, 4.4 metres in diameter, and 13.2 metres in circumference.
24. All round the outer edge of the rim of the tank were two rows of bronze gourds, which had been cast all in one piece with the rest of the tank.