Verse 12
1 Kings 7:12
Bible in Basic English
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The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/חָצֵ֨ר הַ/גְּדוֹלָ֜ה סָבִ֗יב שְׁלֹשָׁה֙ טוּרִ֣ים גָּזִ֔ית וְ/ט֖וּר כְּרֻתֹ֣ת אֲרָזִ֑ים וְ/לַ/חֲצַ֧ר בֵּית יְהוָ֛ה הַ/פְּנִימִ֖ית וּ/לְ/אֻלָ֥ם הַ/בָּֽיִת
English Translation
And the great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of hewn stone and a row of cedar beams for the inner courtyard of the house of the Lord and for the vestibule of the house.
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.
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And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide...
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And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a l...
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There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.
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And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.
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And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps...
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Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of j...
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And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same...
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All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great...
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And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits squar...
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Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.
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The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-w...
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Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.
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He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in br...
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He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of t...
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And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the...
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There were nets of open-work for the crowns on the tops of the pillars, a net of open-work for one a...
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And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the cr...
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The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits...
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And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hund...
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He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on...
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The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete.
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And he made a great metal water-vessel ten cubits across from edge to edge, five cubits high and thi...
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And under the edge of it, circling it all round for ten cubits, were two lines of flower buds, made...
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It was supported on twelve oxen, with their back parts turned to the middle of it, three of them fac...
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It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a li...
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And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubi...
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And the bases were made in this way; their sides were square, fixed in a framework;
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And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the fr...
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Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates u...
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The mouth of it inside the angle-plate was one cubit across; it was round like a pillar, a cubit and...
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The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base;...
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The wheels were made like carriage-wheels, the rods on which they were fixed, the parts forming thei...
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And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of...
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And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high;
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In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, an...
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All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form.
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And he made ten brass washing-vessels, everyone taking forty baths, and measuring four cubits; one v...
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And he put the bases by the house, five on the right side and five on the left; and he put the great...
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And Hiram made the pots and spades and the basins. So Hiram came to the end of all the work he did f...
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The two pillars and the two cups of the crowns which were on the tops of the two pillars; and the ne...
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And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for every network, covering the two...
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And the ten bases, with the ten washing-vessels on them;
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And the great water-vessel, with the twelve oxen under it;
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And the pots and the spades and the basins; all the vessels which Hiram made for King Solomon, for t...
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He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, betwee...
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The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was no...
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And Solomon had all the vessels made for use in the house of the Lord: the altar of gold and the gol...
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And the supports for the lights, five on the right side and five on the left before the inmost room,...
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And the cups and the scissors and the basins and the spoons and the fire-trays, all of gold; and the...
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So all the work King Solomon had done in the house of the Lord was complete. Then Solomon took the h...
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