1 Kings 7:6-15

6Then he made 1the hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a 2threshold in front of them.

7He made the hall of the 3throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and 4it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.

8His house where he was to live, the other court inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. 5He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, 6whom Solomon had married.

9All these were of costly stones, of stone cut 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.

10The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits. 11And above were costly stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar. 12So 7the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the Lord, and 8the porch of the house.

13Now 9King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. 1410He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and 11he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and 12performed all his work.

15He fashioned 13the two pillars of bronze; 14eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits 15measured the circumference of both.