5. All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.
6. He made the porch of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits; with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.
7. He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgement; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.
8. His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.
9. All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
10. The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
11. Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.
12. The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of the Lord’s house and the porch of the house.
13. King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.
14. He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in bronze. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
15. For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.
16. He made two capitals of molten bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.