I Kings - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 351

adorned, carved with sculptures, with passages on passages, with towers, and with walks. They were magnifi- cent within and without, from founda- tion to the coping stones. Even the foundations were great cut stones, ten cubit blocks, and eight {cubit blocks. The pillars were also beau- tifully sculptured stones, and cedar. And round the Great Court were three rows of sculptures and a row of carved cedar, like the Court of the House of the EvER—Lrv1NG, enclosing both the Hall and the Palace. (ac. 1oo5.) marks uf Qirmn, the ®ugiuzzr. For King Solomon had sent and

fetched Hiram from Tzur,-—-he was the son of a widow woman of the tribe of Naphthali, butthis father was a native of Tzur,—who was a fabricator in metals, and skilful in engineering, and in building, and the knowledge of all construction. He came to King Solomon, and designed all his works. He also made the tw0· pillars of brass, each of eighteen cubits high, with a cord of twelve cubits surrounding the two columns, andthe two crowns of cast bronze made to place on the tops of the columns, the height of the one crown being five cubits, and. the height of the other crown five cubits, made like network. * He made great woven chains for the crowns that were upon the heads of the columns. Seven for the first crown,-and seven for the other crown. Thus he made the columns with two stories of net- work, enclosing pomegranates, for the one, to cover the tiara which was on the top; and made the same for the tiara of the second. And the tiaras which were on the tops of the columns were made of lilies, of a height of four cubits; and the tiara on each column also rose from re- ticulated capitals. There were also two hundred pomegranates in rows over the crowns of the two. Then he set the columns in the Court of the Temple, and placed one column on the right side, and named it Firmness,1 next he raised the other column on the left hand and named I Yal<in.··-·F. F. it Speed} Last over the top of the 22 columns he placed the lilies, and completed his work oh the columns. §2¤rripiimt of ily: Qrugzn Sm. He also cast an artificial sea, ten

oubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and tive cubits high, with a beadingof thirty cubits circling round it, with mushrooms under the brim circling round it, ten to the cubit around the 1ake,—ten mush- rooms set in two rows; cast in the same casting. It was supported upon twelve bul-

locks. Three facing to the North; and three facing to the West; and three facing to the South;·and three facing to the East; and the tank was above them, and all their tails were inwards. The thickness of it was a span,2 and its tip like the form of a lily flower. It held two thousand baths. 26

§i1·am makes Qzhzslals fur the Em Zahzrs. He also made ten pedestals of four

cubits long, each pedestal; and four cubits wide and three cubits high; and made these pediments with dove- tails on them, and dovetailed them at the joinings. And on the dovetails that were between the joinings staples and bolts as fasteners, and over the joinings he placed projections, and below the staples and thebolts he made garlands hanging down. There were four wheels of bronze to each pediment, and axles of bronze, and four centered axle—boxes to tit the axles into. He cast eachwith a wreath and an opening from the inner side of the naves which projected for a cubit, and he made the circum ference of the mouth a cubit and a half, and also coverings over the mouth with square indents,-not round ones. And the four wheels were beneath the indents, with clutches on the wheels with cogs, and the lever for each wheel was a cubit and ahalf long._ And hemade the wheels in the form of a chariot wheel, with spokes, and bosses, and poles, and naves,-the whole cast, with four jambs on the four shoulders of the bearings, one from each base 1 Baz.—~F. F. 4 inches.—4F. F, 28 35.1 33 34