6. He also made the Porch of Columns, fifty cubits long and thirty wide. The porch extended across the front, and there were columns with a canopy in front of them.
7. He also made the Porch of the Throne where he gave judgment—that is, the Porch of Judgment; it was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling beams.
8. The house in which he lived was in another court, set in deeper than the Porch and of the same construction. (Solomon made a house like this Porch for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.)
9. All these buildings were of fine stones, hewn to size and trimmed front and back with a saw, from the foundation to the bonding course and outside as far as the great court.
10. The foundation was made of fine, large blocks, some ten cubits and some eight cubits.
11. Above were fine stones hewn to size, and cedar wood.
12. The great court had three courses of hewn stones all around and a course of cedar beams. So also were the inner court of the house of the Lord and its porch.
13. King Solomon brought Hiram from Tyre.
14. He was a bronze worker, the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali; his father had been from Tyre. He was endowed with wisdom, understanding, and knowledge for doing any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his metal work.
15. He fashioned two bronze columns, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
16. He also made two capitals cast in bronze, to be placed on top of the columns, each of them five cubits high.
17. There were meshes made like netting and braid made like chains for the capitals on top of the columns, seven for each capital.
18. He also cast pomegranates, two rows around each netting to cover the capital on top of the columns.
19. The capitals on top of the columns (in the porch) were made like lilies, four cubits high.
20. And the capitals on the two columns, both above and adjoining the bulge where it crossed out of the netting, had two hundred pomegranates in rows around each capital.
21. He set up the columns at the temple porch; one he set up to the south, and called it Jachin, and the other to the north, and called it Boaz.
22. The top of the columns was made like a lily. Thus the work on the columns was completed.
23. Then he made the molten sea; it was made with a circular rim, and measured ten cubits across, five in height, and thirty in circumference.
24. Under the brim, gourds encircled it for ten cubits around the compass of the sea; the gourds were in two rows and were cast in one mold with the sea.