1 Kings 7:13-22

13King Solomon sent men to Tyre to fetch a man called Hiram.

14Hiram was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was a worker who knew how to use bronze to make things. He lived in Tyre. Hiram also had special skills. He knew how to use bronze to make many kinds of things. So he came to work for King Solomon. He did all the work that Solomon asked him to do.

15Hiram made two bronze pillars. Each pillar was 8.2 metres high and 5.5 metres around the outside. The metal itself was about 7 centimetres thick.

16He also used bronze to make a top for each pillar. Each piece was 2.3 metres high.

17Each piece had pictures like rows of chains that joined together. There were seven pictures like this on the top of each pillar.

18Hiram also made pictures of two rows of pomegranates around the chains. They covered the tops of the pillars.

19The tops of the two pillars were in the shape of flowers called lilies. Each one was 1.8 metres high.

20There were pictures of 200 pomegranates in two rows all around the top of each pillar. They were next to the chains above the round shape at the top of the pillar.

21Hiram put these two pillars at the entrance room of the temple, in front of the big hall, the hall of pillars in the temple. He called the pillar on the south side ‘Jakin’. He called the pillar on the north side ‘Boaz’.

22The tops of the pillars were in the shape of flowers called lilies. Hiram finished the work on the two bronze pillars.