القراءة بلغتين

وأَمَّا بَيتُ سُلَيمانَ فبَناه وأَكمَلَ بِناءَه في ثَلاثَ عَشرَةَ سَنَة

فبَنى بَيتَ غابَةِ لُبنان مِئَةَ ذِراعٍ طولًا وخَمْسينَ ذِراعًا عَرضًا وثَلاثينَ ذِراعًا عُلُوًّا. بَناه على أَربَعَةِ صُفوفٍ مِن أَعمِدَةِ الأَرْزِ، وكانَ على الأَعمِدَةِ لاطاتٌ مِنَ الأَرْز

وسَقَفَه بِالأَرزِ مِن فَوقُ على العَوارِضِ الخَمسِ والأَربَعينَ الَّتي على الأَعمِدَة، كُلُّ صَفٍّ خَمْسَ عَشرَةَ عارِضَة

وكانَتِ الشَّبابيكُ ثَلاثَةَ صُفوف، كُلُّ واحِدٍ بإِزاءِ الآخَر

وكانَت جَميعُ المَنافِذِ والدَّعائِمِ مُرَبَّعَةَ الأُطُر، وكانَ كُلُّ شُبَّاكٍ بإِزاءِ شُبَّاكٍ في الصُّفوفِ الثَّلاثة

وصَنَعَ رِواقَ الأَعمِدَةِ خَمْسينَ ذِراعًا طولًا وثَلاثينَ ذِراعًا عَرضًا، وكانَ في الأَمامِ رِواقٌ وأَعمِدَةٌ وكُنَّةٌ أَمامَها

وصَنَعَ رِواقَ العَرْشِ حَيثُ كان يَقْضي، وهو رِواقُ القضاء، مُصَفَّحًا بِالأَرزِ مِنَ الأَرضِ إِلى السَّقف

وأَمَّا بَيتُه الَّذي كانَ يَسكُنُه، فكانَ لَه دارٌ أُخْرى داخِلَ الرِّواق، وكانَ على مِثلِ هٰذا الصُّنْع. وصَنَعَ بَيتًا لِٱبنَةِ فِرعَونَ الَّتي تَزَوَّجَها سُلَيمانُ على مِثالِ هٰذا الرِّواق

كُلُّ ذٰلك مِن حِجارَةٍ ثَمينة، على قِياسِ الحِجارةِ المَنْحوتة، مَنْشورةٍ بِمَناشيرَ مِن داخِلٍ ومِن خارِج، مِن الأَساسِ إِلى الإِفْريز، ومِنَ الخارِجِ إِلى الدَّارِ الكُبْرى

وكانَ الأَساسُ مِن حِجارةٍ ثَمينةٍ ضَخْمة، بَعضُها عَشرُ أَذرُعٍ وبَعضُها ثَماني أَذرُع

ومِن فَوقُ حِجارَةٌ ثَمينَةٌ على قِياسِ الحِجارَةِ المَنْحوتَةِ وأَرْز

ولِلدَّارِ الكُبْرى على مُحيطِها ثَلاثَةُ صُفوفٍ مِنَ الحِجارَةِ المَنْحوتة، وصَفٌّ مِن لاطاتِ الأَرزِ مِثلُ ما لِدارِ بَيتِ الرَّبِّ الدَّاخِلِيَّةِ ولِرِواقِ البَيت

وأَرسَلَ المَلِكُ سُلَيمانُ فأَتى بحيرامَ مِن صور

وهو ٱبنُ أَرمَلَةٍ مِن سِبطِ نَفْتالي، وأَبوه رَجُلٌ مِن صور، صانِعُ نُحاس، وكانَ مُمتَلِئًا حِكمَةً وفَهمًا ومَعرِفةً في عَمَلِ كُلِّ صُنعٍ مِن النُّحاس. فأَتى إِلى المَلِكِ سُلَيمانَ وعَمِلَ كُلَّ عَمَلِه

وصَبَّ عَمودَيِ النُّحاس، طولُ العَمودِ الواحِدِ ثَماني عَشرَةَ ذِراعًا، ومُحيطُ العَمودِ خَيطٌ طولُه ٱثْنَتا عَشرَةَ ذِراعًا

وصَنَعَ تاجَينِ مِن نُحاسٍ مَسْبوك، لِيَضَعَهما على رَأسِ العَمودَين، عُلُوُّ التَّاجِ الواحِدِ خَمسُ أَذرُع، وعُلُوُّ التَّاجِ الآخَرِ خَمسُ أَذرُع

وكانَ لِلتَّاجَينِ اللَّذَينِ على رأسِ العَمودَينِ حَبائِكُ كصُنعِ الشِّباكِ وضَفائِرُ كَصُنعِ السَّلاسِل، سَبعٌ لِلتَّاجِ الواحِدِ وسَبعٌ لِلتَّاجِ الآخَر

وصَنَعَ رُمَّانات، فجَعَلَ صَفَّينِ مِنها على مُحيطِ الحَبيكَةِ الواحِدَةِ لِتَغطِيَةِ التَّاجِ الَّذي على رَأسِ العَمود، وهٰكذا صَنَعَ لِلتَّاجِ الآخَر

وكانَ التَّاجانِ اللَّذانِ على رَأسِ العَمودَينِ في الرَّواقِ على شَكلِ السَّوسَن، كُلُّ واحِدٍ أَربَعُ أَذرُع

وكانَ على تاجَيِ العَمودَينِ فوقَ البَطنِ الَّذي عِندَ الحَبيكَةِ مِئَتا رُمَّانةٍ على صَفَّينِ مُحيطَينِ بِالتَّاجِ الواحِد

ونَصَبَ العَمودَينِ في رِواقِ الهَيكل، نَصَبَ العَمودَ الأَيمَنَ وسَمَّاه بِٱسمِ ياكين، ونَصَبَ العَمودَ الأَيسَرَ وسَمَّاه بِٱسمِ بوعَز

وعلى رأسِ العَمودَينِ كانَ شَكلُ سوسَن. وهٰكذا تَمَّ صُنعُ العَمودَين

وصَنَعَ البَحرَ مَسْبوكًا مُستَديرًا، قُطرُه مِن شَفَةٍ إِلى شَفَةٍ عَشرُ أَذرُع، وعُلُوُّه خَمسُ أَذرُع، ومُحيطُه خَيطٌ طولُه ثَلاثونَ ذِراعًا

وكانَ تَحتَ شَفَتِه مِن كُلِّ جِهَةٍ قِثَّاءٌ يُحيطُ به، لِكُلِّ ذِراعٍ عَشرٌ على صَفَّينِ مُحيطَينِ بِالبَحرِ كُلِّه، والقِثَّاءُ مَسْبوكٌ معَه في سَبْكٍ واحِد

وكانَ قائِمًا على ٱثنَي عَشَرَ ثَورًا، ثَلاثَةٌ مِنها وُجوهُها نَحوَ الشَّمال، وثَلاثَةٌ نَحوَ الغَرْب، وثَلاثَةٌ نَحوَ الجَنوب، وثَلاثَةٌ نَحوَ الشَّرْق، والبَحرُ علَيها، وجَميعُ مُؤَخَّراتِها إِلى الدَّاخِل

وكانَ سُمكُه شِبرًا، وشَفَتُه كَشَفَةِ كأسٍ على مِثالِ زَهرِ السَّوسَن، وكانَ يَسَعُ أَلفَي بَثّ

وصَنَعَ القَواعِدَ العَشرَ مِن نُحاس، طولُ القاعِدَةِ الواحِدَةِ أَربَعُ أَذرُع، وعَرضُها أَربَعُ أَذرُع، وعُلُوُّها ثَلاثُ أَذرُع

وهٰذا صُنعُ القَواعِد: كانَت لَها أَلْواح، وكانَتِ الأَلْواحُ في وَسَطِ أُطُر

وعلى الأَلْواحِ الَّتي في وَسَطِ الأُطُرِ أُسودٌ وثيرانٌ وكَروبين، وعلى الأُطُرِ مِن فَوقِ الأُسودِ والثِّيرانِ ومِن تَحتِها حِبالُ زُهورٍ مَطْروقة

وكانَت لِكُلِّ قاعِدَةٍ أَربَعُ عَجَلاتٍ مِن نُحاسٍ بِمَحاوِرَ مِن نُحاس، ولِزَواياها الأَربَعِ أَكْتافٌ مَسْبوكَةٌ تَحتَ الحَوض، الواحِدَةُ بإِزاءِ الأُخْرى

وكانَ فَمُ القاعِدَةِ في داخِلِ إِطارٍ وكان يَفوقُه بِذِراع، وكانَ مُستَديرًا على شَكلِ قاعِدَةٍ مِن ذِراعٍ ونِصفِ ذِراع. وعلى الفَمِ أَيضًا كانَت نُقوش، غَيرَ أَنَّ أَلْواحَها كانَت مُربَّعةً لا مُدَوَّرة

وكانَتِ العَجَلاتُ الأَربَعُ تَحتَ الأَلْواح، وأَلسِنَةُ العَجَلاتِ في القاعِدَة، وعُلُوُّ العَجَلَةِ الواحِدَةِ ذِراعٌ ونِصفُ ذِراع

وصُنعُ العَجَلاتِ كصُنعِ عَجَلاتِ المَركَبَة، أَلسِنَتُها وأُطُرُها وبَرامِقُها وقُبوبُها كُلُّ ذٰلك مَسْبوك

وكانَت أَربَعُ أَكْتافٍ في الزَّوايا الأَربَعِ مِن كُلِّ قاعِدَة، وأَكْتافُ القاعِدَةِ جُزءٌ مِنها

وفي أَعْلى القاعِدَةِ تَقَبُّبٌ مُسْتَديرٌ على عُلُوِّ نِصفِ ذِراع، وفي أَعْلى القاعِدَةِ أَلسِنَةٌ وأَلْواحٌ جُزءٌ مِنها

ونَقَشَ على ظاهِرِ أَلسِنَتِها وعلى أَلْواحِها كَروبينَ وأُسودًا ونَخيلًا، بِحَسَبِ ما وُسِعَ كُلٌّ مِنها، وحِبالَ زُهورٍ مِن حَولِها

كذٰلك صَنَعَ القَواعِدَ العَشرَ، لِجَميعِها سَبكٌ واحِدٌ وقِياسٌ واحِدٌ وصَوغٌ واحِد

ثُمَّ صَنَعَ عَشرَةَ أَحواضٍ مِن نُحاس، كُلٌّ مِنها يَسَعُ أَربَعينَ بَثًّا. وكانَ كُلُّ حَوضٍ أَربَعَ أَذرُع، وكانَ على كُلِّ قاعِدَةٍ مِنَ القَواعِدِ العَشرِ حَوض

وجَعَلَ القَواعِدَ خَمسًا على الجانِبِ الأَيمَنِ مِنَ البَيت وخَمسًا على الجانِبِ الأَيسَر، وجَعَلَ البَحرَ في الجانِبِ الأَيمَنِ مِنَ البَيتِ إِلى الشَّرقِ مِن جِهَةِ الجَنوب

وصَنَعَ حيرامُ القُدورَ والمَجارِفَ والكُؤُوس. وٱنتهى حيرامُ مِن كُلِّ العَمَلِ الَّذي عَمِلَه لِلمَلِكِ سُلَيمانَ لِأَجلِ بَيتِ الرَّبّ

العَمودَينِ وقالَبَيِ التَّاجَينِ اللَّذَينِ على رَأسِ العَمودَينِ والحَبيكَتَينِ المُغَطِّيَتَينِ لِقالَبَيِ التَّاجَين

والرُّمَّاناتِ الأَربَعِ مِئَةً الَّتي لِلحَبيكَتَين، صَفَّينِ مِنَ الرُّمَّانِ لِكُلِّ حَبيكَة، لِتَغطِيَةِ التَّاجَينِ اللَّذَينِ على العَمودَين

والقَواعِدِ العَشرِ والأَحواضِ العَشَرَةِ الَّتي على القَواعِد

والبَحرِ الوَحيدِ والثِّيرانِ الِٱثنَي عَشَرَ الَّتي تَحتَ البَحْر

والقُدورِ والمَجارِفِ والكُؤُوسِ وجَميعِ الأَدَواتِ الَّتي صَنَعَها حيرامُ لِلمَلِكِ سُلَيمانَ لِأَجلِ بَيتِ الرَّبِّ مِن نُحاسٍ مَصْقول

سَبَكَها المَلِكُ في بُقعَةِ الأُردُنّ، في أَرضٍ خَزَفِيَّة، بَينَ سُكُّوتَ وصَرْتان

وأَهمَلَ سُلَيمانُ وَزنَ جَميعِ الأَدَوات، لِأَنَّها كانَت كَثيرةً جِدًّا جِدًّا، حتَّى كانَ وَزنُ النُّحاسِ لا يُقَدَّر

وصَنَعَ سُلَيمانُ جَميعَ أَدَواتِ بَيتِ الرَّبّ: المَذبَحَ مِنَ الذَّهَب، والمائِدَةَ الَّتي علَيها الخُبزُ المُقَدَّسُ مِنَ الذّهَب

والمَنائِرُ مِن ذَهَبٍ خالِص، خَمسًا عنِ اليَمينِ وخَمسًا عنِ الشِّمالِ أَمامَ المِحْراب، والأَزْهارَ والسُّرُجَ والمَقاصَّ مِنَ الذَّهَب

والطُّسوتَ والمَقاريضَ والكُؤُوسَ والقِصاعَ والمَجامِرَ مِن ذَهَبٍ خالِص، والمَفاصِلَ لِمَصاريعِ البَيتِ الدَّاخِلِيِّ وهو قُدسُ الأَقْداس، ولِمَصاريعِ البَيتِ وهو الهَيكل، مِن ذَهَب

ولَمَّا أُكمِلَ كُلُّ العَمَلِ الَّذي صَنَعَه المَلِكُ سُلَيمانُ لِأَجلِ بَيتِ الرَّبّ، أَدخَلَ سُلَيمانُ أَقْداسَ داوُدَ أَبيه مِنَ الفِضَّةِ والذّهَبِ والأَدَوات، وجَعَلَها في خَزائِنِ بَيتِ الرَّبّ

Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.

There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks.

All the doors and posts were made square with beams; and window was facing window in three ranks.

He made the hall of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits, with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.

He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the same construction. He made also a house for Pharaoh’s daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.

All these were of costly stones, even 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.

The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

The great court around had three courses of cut stone with a course of cedar beams, like the inner court of the LORD’s house and the porch of the house.

King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre.

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.

For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them.

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.

There were nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars: seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.

So he made the pillars; and there were two rows of pomegranates around the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; and he did so for the other capital.

The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.

There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital.

He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar and called its name Boaz.

On the tops of the pillars was lily work. So the work of the pillars was finished.

He made the molten sea ten cubits from brim to brim, round in shape. Its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it.

Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast.

It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.

It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

He made the ten bases of bronze. The length of one base was four cubits, four cubits its width, and three cubits its height.

The work of the bases was like this: they had panels; and there were panels between the ledges;

and on the panels that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges there was a pedestal above; and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.

Every base had four bronze wheels and axles of bronze; and its four feet had supports. The supports were cast beneath the basin, with wreaths at the side of each.

Its opening within the capital and above was a cubit. Its opening was round like the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening were engravings, and their panels were square, not round.

The four wheels were underneath the panels; and the axles of the wheels were in the base. The height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.

The work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel. Their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all of cast metal.

There were four supports at the four corners of each base. Its supports were of the base itself.

In the top of the base there was a round band half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its supports and its panels were the same.

On the plates of its supports and on its panels, he engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees, each in its space, with wreaths all around.

He made the ten bases in this way: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths. Every basin measured four cubits. One basin was on every one of the ten bases.

He set the bases, five on the right side of the house and five on the left side of the house. He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward and toward the south.

Hiram made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram finished doing all the work that he worked for King Solomon in the LORD’s house:

the two pillars; the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars;

the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars;

the ten bases; the ten basins on the bases;

the one sea; the twelve oxen under the sea;

the pots; the shovels; and the basins. All of these vessels, which Hiram made for King Solomon for the LORD’s house, were of burnished bronze.

The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.

Solomon made all the vessels that were in the LORD’s house: the golden altar and the table that the show bread was on, of gold;

and the lamp stands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

the cups, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the fire pans, of pure gold; and the hinges, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.

Thus all the work that King Solomon did in the LORD’s house was finished. Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated—the silver, the gold, and the vessels—and put them in the treasuries of the LORD’s house.