8. The palace where Solomon was to live was behind the Hall of Justice. And it was built like the Hall of Justice. Solomon also built the same kind of palace for his wife. She was the daughter of the king of Egypt.
9. All these buildings were made with blocks of carefully cut fine stone. Then they were trimmed with a saw in the front and back. These fine stones went from the foundations of the buildings to the top of the walls. Even the courtyard was made with blocks of stone.
10. The foundations were made with large blocks of fine stone. Some of the stones were 15 feet long. Others were 12 feet long.
11. On top of those stones there were other cut blocks of fine stone and cedar beams.
12. The palace courtyard, the courtyard inside the Temple and the porch to the Temple were surrounded by walls. All of these walls had three rows of cut stone blocks and one row of cedar beams.
13. King Solomon sent to Tyre and had Huram brought to him.
14. Huram’s mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was from Tyre and had been skilled in making things from bronze. Huram was also very skilled and experienced in bronze work. So he came to King Solomon. And he did all the bronze work Solomon wanted.
15. He made two bronze pillars. Each one was 27 feet tall and 18 feet around.
16. He also made two bronze capitals that were 7½ feet tall. He put them on top of the pillars.
17. Then he made a net of seven chains for each capital. They covered the capitals on top of the two pillars.
18. Then he made two rows of bronze pomegranates to go on the nets. They were to cover the capitals at the top of the pillars.
19. The capitals on top of the pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies. They were 6 feet tall.
20. The capitals were on top of both pillars. They were above the bowl-shaped section and next to the nets. At that place there were 200 pomegranates in rows all around the capitals.
21. Huram put these two bronze pillars at the porch of the Temple. He named the south pillar He Establishes. And he named the north pillar In Him Is Strength.
22. The capitals on top of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work on the pillars was finished.