9. All these works were of costly stones, cut and sawed with saws according to the measurements, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto 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 also costly stones, hewed according to their measurements, and work of cedar.
12. And the great court round about had three orders of hewed stones and an order of cedar beams, and likewise the inner court of the house of the Lord and the porch of the house.
13. And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre,
14. who was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been of Tyre. A worker in brass, full of wisdom and intelligence and knowledge in all work of brass. And he came to King Solomon and did all his work.
15. He made two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece, and a line of twelve cubits did compass each of them about.