I Kings 7

מלכים א׳ פרק ז׳

Section: נביאים · נביאים ראשונים | Book: I Kings | Chapter: 7 of 22 | Day: 107 of 742

Date: May 29, 2026

קלאוד על הנ״ך

I Kings 7 is the chapter of the vessels and the buildings — the great account of how the Beit HaMikdash was furnished and of the parallel palace complex Shlomo built for himself. After the strict architectural focus of chapter 6 on the House itself, chapter 7 widens the field of vision dramatically. It opens with thirteen years of Shlomo’s palace construction (a full almost-twice the seven years it took to build the Temple), turns to the master Phoenician bronze-worker Chiram, and then walks methodically through the great bronze vessels of the Temple courtyard — the two pillars Yachin and Boaz, the molten Sea, the ten ornate laver-stands, and the ten lavers upon them — before concluding with the smaller gold vessels of the Heichal interior and the deposit of David’s consecrated treasures. It is one of the longest and most technically detailed chapters in Tanakh, but its underlying movement is from outside to inside: from Shlomo’s secular grandeur, through the bronze courtyard of the Temple, into the gold-and-fire heart of the sanctuary at last.

The chapter’s opening twelve verses describe Shlomo’s palace, an assemblage of grand structures that took thirteen years to complete — strikingly almost double the seven years required for the Beit HaMikdash itself. Chazal noted this without comment, but the implicit moral is hard to miss: the king of Israel built the House of God faster than he built his own house, but he then did build a much larger compound for himself. The buildings are catalogued: the Beit Ya’ar HaLevanon (“House of the Forest of Lebanon”), 100×50×30 cubits, named for its forty-five massive cedar columns that gave it the appearance of a cedar forest indoors and which housed Shlomo’s famous gold shields (II Divrei Hayomim 9:16); the Ulam HaAmudim, a colonnaded portico fifty by thirty cubits; the Ulam HaKisei (“Throne Hall”), where Shlomo would sit in judgment, paneled in cedar from floor to ceiling; the king’s private residence in an interior courtyard; and a separate palace for Bat Pharaoh, the daughter of Pharaoh whom Shlomo had married. The masonry throughout was of avanim yekarot, costly hewn stones cut to exact dimensions, with the same three-stone-and-one-cedar courtyard pattern that the Temple’s inner court used. The palace, in other words, was magnificent — and the chapter takes care to note that even its walls and beams were of the same architectural quality as the Temple’s. This is the high noon of Shlomo’s reign, the visible glow of the empire we saw in chapter 5.

The chapter’s center is the figure of Chiram from Tzor — not the king (who was the Chiram of chapter 5), but a master bronze craftsman bearing the same Phoenician royal name. He is the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali married to a man of Tzor; he combines Israelite and Phoenician parentage, and he is described in language consciously echoing Bezalel of the Mishkan: “filled with wisdom, with understanding, and with knowledge to do all work in bronze” (verse 14). Just as the Mishkan had its master craftsman from the tribe of Yehuda, Shlomo’s Mikdash has its master craftsman with Phoenician training and an Israelite mother — a fitting human realization of the diplomatic alliance forged in chapter 5. Chiram comes to Yerushalayim and executes every bronze object the Temple courtyard requires.

The bronzework is described with an intensity matched only by the description of the Mishkan itself in Shemot. The two great pillars — eighteen cubits tall, twelve cubits in circumference, with five-cubit capitals decorated with networks of pomegranates and lily-shaped tops — are placed at the entrance of the Heichal: the right-hand pillar named Yachin (“He shall establish”) and the left-hand pillar named Boaz (“In Him is strength”). The names are themselves a theological declaration: the House stands by divine establishment and divine strength, not by human power. The Yam (molten Sea) is then described — a vast circular bronze vessel ten cubits across, five cubits high, holding two thousand bath of water, resting on the backs of twelve bronze oxen arranged in four trios facing the four directions of the compass. It is the courtyard’s water reservoir for the priests’ purifications, but its imagery — twelve oxen, four directions, world-spanning — is cosmic. The chapter then describes the mechonot, ten elaborate wheeled bronze laver-stands, four cubits square and three high, decorated with lions, oxen, cherubim, and palms, with bronze wheels like chariot wheels, designed so the lavers could be moved within the courtyard for the priests’ service. Each stand carried a laver holding forty bath of water; five stands stood on the south side of the Temple, five on the north. The Sea itself sat on the southeast corner, providing the priests’ immersion-bath while the lavers provided ongoing water for sacrificial-service rinsing.

The chapter’s final movement turns to the gold vessels of the Heichal interior. Where the courtyard was bronze, the Heichal is gold: the gold mizbach haketoret, the gold shulchan for the lechem hapanim, the ten golden menorot (five on the south, five on the north of the Heichal — an expansion of the Mishkan’s single Menorah), the gold flowers and lamps and tongs and cups and snuffers and spoons and incense-pans, even the gold sockets for the doors of the Devir and Heichal. The contrast between bronze (outdoor service) and gold (indoor sanctity) is deliberate and exact, mirroring the Mishkan’s same architecture of escalating preciousness as one moves inward. The chapter closes with a quiet but profound act: Shlomo brings in David’s consecrated treasures — the silver, gold, and vessels his father had set aside through years of war and diplomacy — and deposits them in the Temple treasuries. David could not build the House, but his lifetime of accumulating its materials is finally laid to rest within the building his son completed. The Temple thus arrives at the end of chapter 7 fully built, fully furnished, fully provisioned. In chapter 8, Shlomo will dedicate it.

פרק ז׳ · Chapter 7

פסוק א׳ · Verse 1

Hebrew:

וְאֶת־בֵּיתוֹ֙ בָּנָ֣ה שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה שְׁלֹ֥שׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה שָׁנָ֑ה וַיְכַ֖ל אֶת־כׇּל־בֵּיתֽוֹ׃

English:

And it took Solomon thirteen years to build his palace, until his whole palace was completed.

פסוק ב׳ · Verse 2

Hebrew:

וַיִּ֜בֶן אֶת־בֵּ֣ית ׀ יַ֣עַר הַלְּבָנ֗וֹן מֵאָ֨ה אַמָּ֤ה אׇרְכּוֹ֙ וַחֲמִשִּׁ֤ים אַמָּה֙ רׇחְבּ֔וֹ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים אַמָּ֖ה קוֹמָת֑וֹ עַ֗ל אַרְבָּעָה֙ טוּרֵי֙ עַמּוּדֵ֣י אֲרָזִ֔ים וּכְרֻת֥וֹת אֲרָזִ֖ים עַל־הָעַמּוּדִֽים׃

English:

He built the Lebanon Forest House with four rowsaLebanon Forest House with four rows So called because of the rows of cedar columns. Septuagint reads “three rows” instead of “four rows”; cf. v. 3. of cedar columns, and with hewn cedar beams above the columns. Its length was 100 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.

פסוק ג׳ · Verse 3

Hebrew:

וְסָפֻ֣ן בָּאֶ֗רֶז מִמַּ֙עַל֙ עַל־הַצְּלָעוֹת֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר עַל־הָעַמּוּדִ֔ים אַרְבָּעִ֖ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֑ה חֲמִשָּׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר הַטּֽוּר׃

English:

It was paneled above with cedar, with the planksbplanks Apparently the “planks” connected the columns longitudinally, and the “beams” (v. 2) connected the planks transversely. that were above on the 45 columns—15 in each row.

פסוק ד׳ · Verse 4

Hebrew:

וּשְׁקֻפִ֖ים שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה טוּרִ֑ים וּמֶחֱזָ֥ה אֶל־מֶחֱזָ֖ה שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִֽים׃

English:

And there were three rows of window frames, with three tiers of windows facing each other.

פסוק ה׳ · Verse 5

Hebrew:

וְכׇל־הַפְּתָחִ֥ים וְהַמְּזוּז֖וֹת רְבֻעִ֣ים שָׁ֑קֶף וּמ֧וּל מֶחֱזָ֛ה אֶל־מֶחֱזָ֖ה שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִֽים׃

English:

All the doorways and doorpostscdoorposts Septuagint reads “windows.” had square frames—with three tiers of windows facing each other.

פסוק ו׳ · Verse 6

Hebrew:

וְאֵ֨ת אוּלָ֤ם הָֽעַמּוּדִים֙ עָשָׂ֔ה חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים אַמָּה֙ אׇרְכּ֔וֹ וּשְׁלֹשִׁ֥ים אַמָּ֖ה רׇחְבּ֑וֹ וְאוּלָם֙ עַל־פְּנֵיהֶ֔ם וְעַמֻּדִ֥ים וְעָ֖ב עַל־פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃

English:

He made the portico of columns 50 cubits long and 30 cubits wide; the portico was in front of [the columns], and there were columns with a canopy in front of them.dthe portico was in front … a canopy in front of them Meaning of Heb. uncertain.

פסוק ז׳ · Verse 7

Hebrew:

וְאוּלָ֤ם הַכִּסֵּא֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יִשְׁפׇּט־שָׁ֔ם אֻלָ֥ם הַמִּשְׁפָּ֖ט עָשָׂ֑ה וְסָפ֣וּן בָּאֶ֔רֶז מֵהַקַּרְקַ֖ע עַד־הַקַּרְקָֽע׃

English:

He made the throne portico, where he was to pronounce judgment—the Hall of Judgment. It was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.efloor Syriac reads “rafters.”

פסוק ח׳ · Verse 8

Hebrew:

וּבֵיתוֹ֩ אֲשֶׁר־יֵ֨שֶׁב שָׁ֜ם חָצֵ֣ר הָאַחֶ֗רֶת מִבֵּית֙ לָאוּלָ֔ם כַּמַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה הַזֶּ֖ה הָיָ֑ה וּבַ֜יִת יַעֲשֶׂ֤ה לְבַת־פַּרְעֹה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לָקַ֣ח שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה כָּאוּלָ֖ם הַזֶּֽה׃

English:

The house that he used as a residence, in the rear courtyard, back of the portico, was of the same construction. Solomon also constructed a palace like that portico for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom he had married.

פסוק ט׳ · Verse 9

Hebrew:

כׇּל־אֵ֜לֶּה אֲבָנִ֤ים יְקָרֹת֙ כְּמִדּ֣וֹת גָּזִ֔ית מְגֹרָר֥וֹת בַּמְּגֵרָ֖ה מִבַּ֣יִת וּמִח֑וּץ וּמִמַּסָּד֙ עַד־הַטְּפָח֔וֹת וּמִח֖וּץ עַד־הֶחָצֵ֥ר הַגְּדוֹלָֽה׃

English:

All these buildings, from foundation to coping and all the way out to the great courtyard, were of choice stones, hewn according to measure, smooth on all sides.fsmooth on all sides Lit. “sawed with a saw in the inside and outside.”

פסוק י״ · Verse 10

Hebrew:

וּמְיֻסָּ֕ד אֲבָנִ֥ים יְקָר֖וֹת אֲבָנִ֣ים גְּדֹל֑וֹת אַבְנֵי֙ עֶ֣שֶׂר אַמּ֔וֹת וְאַבְנֵ֖י שְׁמֹנֶ֥ה אַמּֽוֹת׃

English:

The foundations were huge blocks of choice stone, stones of 10 cubits and stones of 8 cubits;

פסוק י״א · Verse 11

Hebrew:

וּמִלְמַ֗עְלָה אֲבָנִ֧ים יְקָר֛וֹת כְּמִדּ֥וֹת גָּזִ֖ית וָאָֽרֶז׃

English:

and above were choice stones, hewn according to measure, and cedar wood.

פסוק י״ב · Verse 12

Hebrew:

וְחָצֵ֨ר הַגְּדוֹלָ֜ה סָבִ֗יב שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ טוּרִ֣ים גָּזִ֔ית וְט֖וּר כְּ��ֻתֹ֣ת אֲרָזִ֑ים וְלַחֲצַ֧ר בֵּית־יְהֹוָ֛ה הַפְּנִימִ֖ית וּלְאֻלָ֥ם הַבָּֽיִת׃ {פ}

English:

The large surrounding courtyard had three tiers of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams, the same as for the inner court of the House of GOD, and for the portico of the House.

פסוק י״ג · Verse 13

Hebrew:

וַיִּשְׁלַח֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה וַיִּקַּ֥ח אֶת־חִירָ֖ם מִצֹּֽר׃

English:

King Solomon sent for Hiram and brought him down from Tyre.

פסוק י״ד · Verse 14

Hebrew:

בֶּן־אִשָּׁה֩ אַלְמָנָ֨ה ה֜וּא מִמַּטֵּ֣ה נַפְתָּלִ֗י וְאָבִ֣יו אִישׁ־צֹרִי֮ חֹרֵ֣שׁ נְחֹ֒שֶׁת֒ וַ֠יִּמָּלֵ֠א אֶת־הַחׇכְמָ֤ה וְאֶת־הַתְּבוּנָה֙ וְאֶת־הַדַּ֔עַת לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת כׇּל־מְלָאכָ֖ה בַּנְּחֹ֑שֶׁת וַיָּבוֹא֙ אֶל־הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה וַיַּ֖עַשׂ אֶת־כׇּל־מְלַאכְתּֽוֹ׃

English:

He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been a Tyrian, a coppersmith. He was endowed with skill, ability, and talent for executing all work in bronze.gbronze Heb. neḥosheth denotes both copper and bronze. In the translation “copper” is ordinarily used for the natural product and “bronze” for the artifacts. He came to King Solomon and executed all his work.

פסוק ט״ו · Verse 15

Hebrew:

וַיָּ֛צַר אֶת־שְׁנֵ֥י הָעַמּוּדִ֖ים נְחֹ֑שֶׁת שְׁמֹנֶ֨ה עֶשְׂרֵ֜ה אַמָּ֗ה קוֹמַת֙ הָעַמּ֣וּד הָאֶחָ֔ד וְחוּט֙ שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה אַמָּ֔ה יָסֹ֖ב אֶת־הָעַמּ֥וּד הַשֵּׁנִֽי׃

English:

He cast two columns of bronze; one column was 18 cubits high and measured 12 cubits in circumference, [and similarly] the other column.

פסוק ט״ז · Verse 16

Hebrew:

וּשְׁתֵּ֨י כֹתָרֹ֜ת עָשָׂ֗ה לָתֵ֛ת עַל־רָאשֵׁ֥י הָעַמּוּדִ֖ים מֻצַ֣ק נְחֹ֑שֶׁת חָמֵ֣שׁ אַמּ֗וֹת קוֹמַת֙ הַכֹּתֶ֣רֶת הָאֶחָ֔ת וְחָמֵ֣שׁ אַמּ֔וֹת קוֹמַ֖ת הַכֹּתֶ֥רֶת הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃

English:

He made two capitals, cast in bronze, to be set upon the two columns, the height of each of the two capitals being 5 cubits;

פסוק י״ז · Verse 17

Hebrew:

שְׂבָכִ֞ים מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה שְׂבָכָ֗ה גְּדִלִים֙ מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה שַׁרְשְׁר֔וֹת לַכֹּ֣תָרֹ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ הָעַמּוּדִ֑ים שִׁבְעָה֙ לַכֹּתֶ֣רֶת הָאֶחָ֔ת וְשִׁבְעָ֖ה לַכֹּתֶ֥רֶת הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃

English:

also nets of meshwork with festoons of chainwork for the capitals that were on the top of the columns, seven for each of the two capitals.

פסוק י״ח · Verse 18

Hebrew:

וַיַּ֖עַשׂ אֶת־הָעַמּוּדִ֑ים וּשְׁנֵי֩ טוּרִ֨ים סָבִ֜יב עַל־הַשְּׂבָכָ֣ה הָאֶחָ֗ת לְכַסּ֤וֹת אֶת־הַכֹּֽתָרֹת֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ הָרִמֹּנִ֔ים וְכֵ֣ן עָשָׂ֔ה לַכֹּתֶ֖רֶת הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃

English:

He made the columnshcolumns Two Heb. mss. read “pomegranates.” so that there were two rows [of pomegranates] encircling the top of the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pomegranates;ipomegranates About fifty Heb. mss. read “columns.” and he did the same for [the network on] the second capital.

פסוק י״ט · Verse 19

Hebrew:

וְכֹתָרֹ֗ת אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־רֹ֣אשׁ הָעַמּוּדִ֔ים מַעֲשֵׂ֖ה שׁוּשַׁ֣ן בָּאוּלָ֑ם אַרְבַּ֖ע אַמּֽוֹת׃

English:

The capitals upon the columns of the portico were of lily design, 4 cubits high;

פסוק כ׳ · Verse 20

Hebrew:

וְכֹתָרֹ֗ת עַל־שְׁנֵי֙ הָעַמּוּדִ֔ים גַּם־מִמַּ֙עַל֙ מִלְּעֻמַּ֣ת הַבֶּ֔טֶן אֲשֶׁ֖ר לְעֵ֣בֶר (שבכה) [הַשְּׂבָכָ֑ה] וְהָרִמּוֹנִ֤ים מָאתַ֙יִם֙ טֻרִ֣ים סָבִ֔יב עַ֖ל הַכֹּתֶ֥רֶת הַשֵּׁנִֽית׃

English:

so also the capitals upon the two columns extended above and next to the bulgejbulge Lit. “belly”; exact force of Heb. uncertain. that was beside the network. There were 200 pomegranates in rows around the top of the second capital.kthe second capital I.e., each of the two capitals.

פסוק כ״א · Verse 21

Hebrew:

וַיָּ֙קֶם֙ אֶת־הָֽעַמֻּדִ֔ים לְאֻלָ֖ם הַהֵיכָ֑ל וַיָּ֜קֶם אֶת־הָעַמּ֣וּד הַיְמָנִ֗י וַיִּקְרָ֤א אֶת־שְׁמוֹ֙ יָכִ֔ין וַיָּ֙קֶם֙ אֶת־הָעַמּ֣וּד הַשְּׂמָאלִ֔י וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמ֖וֹ בֹּֽעַז׃

English:

He set up the columns at the portico of the Great Hall; he set up one column on the right and named it Jachin, and he set up the other column on the left and named it Boaz.

פסוק כ״ב · Verse 22

Hebrew:

וְעַ֛ל רֹ֥אשׁ הָעַמּוּדִ֖ים מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה שׁוֹשָׁ֑ן וַתִּתֹּ֖ם מְלֶ֥אכֶת הָעַמּוּדִֽים׃

English:

Upon the top of the columns there was a lily design. Thus the work of the columns was completed.

פסוק כ״ג · Verse 23

Hebrew:

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ אֶת־הַיָּ֖ם מוּצָ֑ק עֶ֣שֶׂר בָּ֠אַמָּ֠ה מִשְּׂפָת֨וֹ עַד־שְׂפָת֜וֹ עָגֹ֣ל ׀ סָבִ֗יב וְחָמֵ֤שׁ בָּֽאַמָּה֙ קוֹמָת֔וֹ (וקוה) [וְקָו֙] שְׁלֹשִׁ֣ים בָּאַמָּ֔ה יָסֹ֥ב אֹת֖וֹ סָבִֽיב׃

English:

Then he made the tankltank Lit. “sea.” of cast metal, 10 cubits across from brim to brim, completely round; it was 5 cubits high, and it measured 30 cubits in circumference.

פסוק כ״ד · Verse 24

Hebrew:

וּפְקָעִים֩ מִתַּ֨חַת לִשְׂפָת֤וֹ ׀ סָבִיב֙ סֹבְבִ֣ים אֹת֔וֹ עֶ֚שֶׂר בָּאַמָּ֔ה מַקִּפִ֥ים אֶת־הַיָּ֖ם סָבִ֑יב שְׁנֵ֤י טוּרִים֙ הַפְּקָעִ֔ים יְצֻקִ֖ים בִּיצֻֽקָתֽוֹ׃

English:

There were gourds below the brim completely encircling it—ten to a cubit, encircling the tank; the gourds were in two rows, cast in one piece with it.

פסוק כ״ה · Verse 25

Hebrew:

עֹמֵ֞ד עַל־שְׁנֵ֧י עָשָׂ֣ר בָּקָ֗ר שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה פֹנִ֣ים ׀ צָפ֡וֹנָה וּשְׁלֹשָׁה֩ פֹנִ֨ים ׀ יָ֜מָּה וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה ׀ פֹּנִ֣ים נֶ֗גְבָּה וּשְׁלֹשָׁה֙ פֹּנִ֣ים מִזְרָ֔חָה וְהַיָּ֥ם עֲלֵיהֶ֖ם מִלְמָ֑עְלָה וְכׇל־אֲחֹרֵיהֶ֖ם בָּֽיְתָה׃

English:

It stood upon twelve oxen: three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east, with the tank resting upon them; their haunches were all turned inward.

פסוק כ״ו · Verse 26

Hebrew:

וְעׇבְי֣וֹ טֶ֔פַח וּשְׂפָת֛וֹ כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה שְׂפַת־כּ֖וֹס פֶּ֣רַח שׁוֹשָׁ֑ן אַלְפַּ֥יִם בַּ֖ת יָכִֽיל׃ {פ}

English:

It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like that of a cup, like the petals of a lily. Its capacity was 2,000 baths.

פסוק כ״ז · Verse 27

Hebrew:

וַיַּ֧עַשׂ אֶת־הַמְּכֹנ֛וֹת עֶ֖שֶׂר נְחֹ֑שֶׁת אַרְבַּ֣ע בָּאַמָּ֗ה אֹ֚רֶךְ הַמְּכוֹנָ֣ה הָאֶחָ֔ת וְאַרְבַּ֤ע בָּֽאַמָּה֙ רׇחְבָּ֔הּ וְשָׁלֹ֥שׁ בָּאַמָּ֖ה קוֹמָתָֽהּ׃

English:

He made the ten laver stands of bronze. The length of each laver stand was 4 cubits and the width 4 cubits, and the height was 3 cubits.

פסוק כ״ח · Verse 28

Hebrew:

וְזֶ֛ה מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה הַמְּכוֹנָ֖ה מִסְגְּרֹ֣ת לָהֶ֑ם וּמִסְגְּרֹ֖ת בֵּ֥ין הַשְׁלַבִּֽים׃

English:

The structure of the laver stands was as follows: They had insets,minsets Emendation yields “frames.” and there were insets within the frames;

פסוק כ״ט · Verse 29

Hebrew:

וְעַֽל־הַמִּסְגְּר֞וֹת אֲשֶׁ֣ר ׀ בֵּ֣ין הַשְׁלַבִּ֗ים אֲרָי֤וֹת ׀ בָּקָר֙ וּכְרוּבִ֔ים וְעַל־הַשְׁלַבִּ֖ים כֵּ֣ן מִמָּ֑עַל וּמִתַּ֙חַת֙ לַאֲרָי֣וֹת וְלַבָּקָ֔ר לֹי֖וֹת מַעֲשֵׂ֥ה מוֹרָֽד׃

English:

and on the insets within the frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim. Above the frames was a stand; and both above and below the lions and the oxen were spirals of hammered metal.

פסוק ל׳ · Verse 30

Hebrew:

וְאַרְבָּעָה֩ אוֹפַנֵּ֨י נְחֹ֜שֶׁת לַמְּכוֹנָ֤ה הָאַחַת֙ וְסַרְנֵ֣י נְחֹ֔שֶׁת וְאַרְבָּעָ֥ה פַעֲמֹתָ֖יו כְּתֵפֹ֣ת לָהֶ֑ם מִתַּ֤חַת לַכִּיֹּר֙ הַכְּתֵפ֣וֹת יְצֻק֔וֹת מֵעֵ֥בֶר אִ֖ישׁ לֹיֽוֹת׃

English:

Each laver stand had four bronze wheels and [two] bronze axletrees. Its four legs had brackets; the brackets were under the laver, cast with spirals beyond each.nwith spirals beyond each Meaning of Heb. uncertain.

פסוק ל״א · Verse 31

Hebrew:

וּ֠פִ֠יהוּ מִבֵּ֨ית לַכֹּתֶ֤רֶת וָמַ֙עְלָה֙ בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה וּפִ֙יהָ֙ עָגֹ֣ל מַעֲשֵׂה־כֵ֔ן אַמָּ֖ה וַחֲצִ֣י הָאַמָּ֑ה וְגַם־עַל־פִּ֙יהָ֙ מִקְלָע֔וֹת וּמִסְגְּרֹתֵיהֶ֥ם מְרֻבָּע֖וֹת לֹ֥א עֲגֻלּֽוֹת׃

English:

Its funnel, within the crown, rose a cubit above it; this funnel was round, in the fashion of a stand, a cubit and a half in diameter. On the funnel too there were carvings.But the insets were square, not round.

פסוק ל״ב · Verse 32

Hebrew:

וְאַרְבַּ֣עַת הָאוֹפַנִּ֗ים לְמִתַּ֙חַת֙ לַֽמִּסְגְּר֔וֹת וִיד֥וֹת הָאוֹפַנִּ֖ים בַּמְּכוֹנָ֑ה וְקוֹמַת֙ הָאוֹפַ֣ן הָאֶחָ֔ד אַמָּ֖ה וַחֲצִ֥י הָא��מָּֽה׃

English:

And below the insets were the four wheels. The axletrees of the wheels were [fixed] in the laver stand, and the height of each wheel was a cubit and a half.

פסוק ל״ג · Verse 33

Hebrew:

וּמַֽעֲשֵׂה֙ הָא֣וֹפַנִּ֔ים כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֖ה אוֹפַ֣ן הַמֶּרְכָּבָ֑ה יְדוֹתָ֣ם וְגַבֵּיהֶ֗ם וְחִשֻּׁקֵיהֶ֛ם וְחִשֻּׁרֵיהֶ֖ם הַכֹּ֥ל מוּצָֽק׃

English:

The structure of the wheels was like the structure of chariot wheels; and their axletrees, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs were all of cast metal.

פסוק ל״ד · Verse 34

Hebrew:

וְאַרְבַּ֣ע כְּתֵפ֔וֹת אֶ֚ל אַרְבַּ֣ע פִּנּ֔וֹת הַמְּכֹנָ֖ה הָאֶחָ֑ת מִן־הַמְּכֹנָ֖ה כְּתֵפֶֽיהָ׃

English:

Four brackets ran to the four corners of each laver stand; the brackets were of a piece with the laver stand.

פסוק ל״ה · Verse 35

Hebrew:

וּבְרֹ֣אשׁ הַמְּכוֹנָ֗ה חֲצִ֧י הָאַמָּ֛ה קוֹמָ֖ה עָגֹ֣ל ׀ סָבִ֑יב וְעַ֨ל רֹ֤אשׁ הַמְּכֹנָה֙ יְדֹתֶ֔יהָ וּמִסְגְּרֹתֶ֖יהָ מִמֶּֽנָּה׃

English:

At the top of the laver stand was a round band half a cubit high, and together with the top of the laver stand; its sides and its insets were of one piece with it.

פסוק ל״ו · Verse 36

Hebrew:

וַיְפַתַּ֤ח עַל־הַלֻּחֹת֙ יְדֹתֶ֔יהָ וְעַל֙ (ומסגרתיה) [מִסְגְּרֹתֶ֔יהָ] כְּרוּבִ֖ים אֲרָי֣וֹת וְתִמֹרֹ֑ת כְּמַעַר־אִ֥ישׁ וְלֹי֖וֹת סָבִֽיב׃

English:

On its surface—on its sides—and on its insets [Hiram] engraved cherubim, lions, and palms, as the clear space on each allowed,oOn its surface … allowed Meaning of Heb. uncertain. with spirals round about.

פסוק ל״ז · Verse 37

Hebrew:

כָּזֹ֣את עָשָׂ֔ה אֵ֖ת עֶ֣שֶׂר הַמְּכֹנ֑וֹת מוּצָ֨ק אֶחָ֜ד מִדָּ֥ה אַחַ֛ת קֶ֥צֶב אֶחָ֖ד לְכֻלָּֽהְנָֽה׃ {ס}        

English:

It was after this manner that he made the ten laver stands, all of them cast alike, of the same measure and the same form.

פסוק ל״ח · Verse 38

Hebrew:

וַיַּ֛עַשׂ עֲשָׂרָ֥ה כִיֹּר֖וֹת נְחֹ֑שֶׁת אַרְבָּעִ֨ים בַּ֜ת יָכִ֣יל ׀ הַכִּיּ֣וֹר הָאֶחָ֗ד אַרְבַּ֤ע בָּֽאַמָּה֙ הַכִּיּ֣וֹר הָאֶחָ֔ד כִּיּ֤וֹר אֶחָד֙ עַל־הַמְּכוֹנָ֣ה הָאַחַ֔ת לְעֶ֖שֶׂר הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת׃

English:

Then he made ten bronze lavers, one laver on each of the ten laver stands, each laver measuring 4 cubits and each laver containing forty baths.

פסוק ל״ט · Verse 39

Hebrew:

וַיִּתֵּן֙ אֶת־הַמְּכֹנ֔וֹת חָמֵ֞שׁ עַל־כֶּ֤תֶף הַבַּ֙יִת֙ מִיָּמִ֔ין וְחָמֵ֛שׁ עַל־כֶּ֥תֶף הַבַּ֖יִת מִשְּׂמֹאל֑וֹ וְאֶת־הַיָּ֗ם נָתַ֞ן מִכֶּ֨תֶף הַבַּ֧יִת הַיְמָנִ֛ית קֵ֖דְמָה מִמּ֥וּל נֶֽגֶב׃ {ס}        

English:

He disposed the laver stands, five at the right side of the House and five at its left side; and the tank he placed on the right side of the House, at the southeast [corner].

פסוק מ׳ · Verse 40

Hebrew:

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ חִיר֔וֹם אֶ֨ת־הַכִּיֹּר֔וֹת וְאֶת־הַיָּעִ֖ים וְאֶת־הַמִּזְרָק֑וֹת וַיְכַ֣ל חִירָ֗ם לַֽעֲשׂוֹת֙ אֶת־כׇּל־הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֛ה לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה בֵּ֥ית יְהֹוָֽה׃

English:

Hiram also made the lavers, the scrapers, and the sprinkling bowls.So Hiram finished all the work that he had been doing for King Solomon on the House of GOD:

פסוק מ״א · Verse 41

Hebrew:

עַמֻּדִ֣ים שְׁנַ֔יִם וְגֻלֹּ֧ת הַכֹּתָרֹ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־עַל��רֹ֥אשׁ הָעַמּוּדִ֖ים שְׁתָּ֑יִם וְהַשְּׂבָכ֣וֹת שְׁתַּ֔יִם לְכַסּ֗וֹת אֶת־שְׁתֵּי֙ גֻּלּ֣וֹת הַכֹּתָרֹ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־רֹ֥אשׁ הָעַמּוּדִֽים׃

English:

the two columns, the two globes of the capitals upon the columns; and the two pieces of network to cover the two globes of the capitals upon the columns;

פסוק מ״ב · Verse 42

Hebrew:

וְאֶת־הָרִמֹּנִ֛ים אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת לִשְׁתֵּ֣י הַשְּׂבָכ֑וֹת שְׁנֵֽי־טוּרִ֤ים רִמֹּנִים֙ לַשְּׂבָכָ֣ה הָאֶחָ֔ת לְכַסּ֗וֹת אֶת־שְׁתֵּי֙ גֻּלּ֣וֹת הַכֹּתָרֹ֔ת אֲשֶׁ֖ר עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הָעַמּוּדִֽים׃

English:

the four hundred pomegranates for the two pieces of network, two rows of pomegranates for each network, to cover the two globes of the capitals upon the columns;

פסוק מ״ג · Verse 43

Hebrew:

וְאֶת־הַמְּכֹנ֖וֹת עָ֑שֶׂר וְאֶת־הַכִּיֹּרֹ֥ת עֲשָׂרָ֖ה עַל־הַמְּכֹנֽוֹת׃

English:

the ten stands and the ten lavers upon the stands;

פסוק מ״ד · Verse 44

Hebrew:

וְאֶת־הַיָּ֖ם הָאֶחָ֑ד וְאֶת־הַבָּקָ֥ר שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֖ר תַּ֥חַת הַיָּֽם׃

English:

the one tank with the twelve oxen underneath the tank;

פסוק מ״ה · Verse 45

Hebrew:

וְאֶת־הַסִּיר֨וֹת וְאֶת־הַיָּעִ֜ים וְאֶת־הַמִּזְרָק֗וֹת וְאֵת֙ כׇּל־הַכֵּלִ֣ים (האהל) [הָאֵ֔לֶּה] אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ֥ה חִירָ֛ם לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה בֵּ֣ית יְהֹוָ֑ה נְחֹ֖שֶׁת מְמֹרָֽט׃

English:

the pails, the scrapers, and the sprinkling bowls. All those vessels in the House of GOD that Hiram made for King Solomon were of burnished bronze.

פסוק מ״ו · Verse 46

Hebrew:

בְּכִכַּ֤ר הַיַּרְדֵּן֙ יְצָקָ֣ם הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ בְּמַעֲבֵ֖ה הָאֲדָמָ֑ה בֵּ֥ין סֻכּ֖וֹת וּבֵ֥ין צָרְתָֽן׃

English:

The king had them cast in earthen molds,pin earthen molds Lit. “in the thick of the earth.” in the plain of the Jordan between Succoth and Zarethan.

פסוק מ״ז · Verse 47

Hebrew:

וַיַּנַּ֤ח שְׁלֹמֹה֙ אֶת־כׇּל־הַכֵּלִ֔ים מֵרֹ֖ב מְאֹ֣ד מְאֹ֑ד לֹ֥א נֶחְקַ֖ר מִשְׁקַ֥ל הַנְּחֹֽשֶׁת׃

English:

Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed] because of their very great quantity; the weight of the bronze was not reckoned.

פסוק מ״ח · Verse 48

Hebrew:

וַיַּ֣עַשׂ שְׁלֹמֹ֔ה אֵ֚ת כׇּל־הַכֵּלִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר בֵּ֣ית יְהֹוָ֑ה אֵ֚ת מִזְבַּ֣ח הַזָּהָ֔ב וְאֶת־הַשֻּׁלְחָ֗ן אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָלָ֛יו לֶ֥חֶם הַפָּנִ֖ים זָהָֽב׃

English:

And Solomon made all the furnishings that were in the House of GOD: the altar, of gold; the table for the bread of display, of gold;

פסוק מ״ט · Verse 49

Hebrew:

וְאֶת־הַ֠מְּנֹר֠וֹת חָמֵ֨שׁ מִיָּמִ֜ין וְחָמֵ֧שׁ מִשְּׂמֹ֛אול לִפְנֵ֥י הַדְּבִ֖יר זָהָ֣ב סָג֑וּר וְהַפֶּ֧רַח וְהַנֵּרֹ֛ת וְהַמֶּלְקַחַ֖יִם זָהָֽב׃

English:

the lampstands—five on the right side and five on the left—in front of the Shrine, of solid gold; and the petals, lamps, and tongs, of gold;

פסוק נ׳ · Verse 50

Hebrew:

וְ֠הַסִּפּ֠וֹת וְהַֽמְזַמְּר֧וֹת וְהַמִּזְרָק֛וֹת וְהַכַּפּ֥וֹת וְהַמַּחְתּ֖וֹת זָהָ֣ב סָג֑וּר וְהַפֹּת֡וֹת לְדַלְתוֹת֩ הַבַּ֨יִת הַפְּנִימִ֜י לְקֹ֣דֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁ֗ים לְדַלְתֵ֥י הַבַּ֛יִת לַהֵיכָ֖ל זָהָֽב׃ {פ}

English:

the basins, snuffers, sprinkling bowls, ladles, and fire pans, of solid gold; and the hinge sockets for the doors of the innermost part of the House, the Holy of Holies, and for the doors of the Great Hall of the House, of gold.

פסוק נ״א · Verse 51

Hebrew:

וַתִּשְׁלַם֙ כׇּל־הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר עָשָׂ֛ה הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ שְׁלֹמֹ֖ה בֵּ֣ית יְהֹוָ֑ה וַיָּבֵ֨א שְׁלֹמֹ֜ה אֶת־קׇדְשֵׁ֣י ׀ דָּוִ֣ד אָבִ֗יו אֶת־הַכֶּ֤סֶף וְאֶת־הַזָּהָב֙ וְאֶת־הַכֵּלִ֔ים נָתַ֕ן בְּאֹצְר֖וֹת בֵּ֥ית יְהֹוָֽה׃ {פ}

English:

When all the work that King Solomon had done in the House of GOD was completed, Solomon brought in the sacred donations of his father David—the silver, the gold, and the vessels—and deposited them in the treasury of the House of GOD.

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