I Kings Chapter 7 on How the Holy Temple of G-d is Being Built with Finest Materials

Nothing But The Best And The Finest

This is how and what you should give or offer to G-d.

Not the leftovers or freebies.

This chapter describes in great length about the Holy Temple built by Solomon

Fine gold and other unique features are incorporated in the building of the Holy Temple.

*You may also read Malachi to learn more about “Offerings.”

“The Palace of Solomon”
“Precious Materials”
“Jachin and Boaz — Ornamental Pillars”
“Gold Furnishings”
“The Sanctities of David”

His own house Solomon built over thirteen years, and he finished his entire palace.
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… He [also] made a house like this hall for the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Solomon had taken [as wife].
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All these were [built of] valuable stones, the size of hewn stones, filed smooth with a file, on the inside and on the outside and from the foundation to the ceiling — and outdoors until the great courtyard.
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He erected the pillars by the hall of the Sanctuary; he erected the right pillar and called its name “Jachin” [Establish], and erected the left pillar and called its name “Boaz” [Strength Is in It].
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Solomon set aside all the vessels because there were so very, very many; the weight of the copper could not be determined.
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And Solomon made all the furnishings for the Temple of Hashem: the golden Altar; the Table upon which was the showbread, of gold;
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the candelabra, five on the right and five on the left, placed in front of the inner Sanctum, of fine gold; with their flowers, lamps, and tongs of gold;
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the jugs, musical instruments, bowls, spoons and pans were of fine gold; and the hinge-sockets of the doors of the inner House, the Holy of Holies, and those of the doors of the Temple, that is, the Hall, of gold.
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When all the work that King Solomon had done for the Temple of Hashem was completed, Solomon brought that which his father David had sanctified, the silver, the gold and the articles — and placed them in the treasuries of the Temple of Hashem.
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1 And Solomon built his house thirteen years and he finished all his house.
2 And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; one hundred cubits (was) its length, and fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars, and cut beams of cedar upon the pillars.
3 And it was covered with cedar above on the walls which (were) on forty-five pillars, fifteen (in) each row.
4 And (there were) windows (in) three rows, and (each) window was opposite the (other) window three times.
5 And all the entrances and posts (were) square, (also) the window; and (each) window was opposite the (other) window three times.
6 And he made the porch of pillars; fifty cubits its length, and thirty cubits its breadth, and a porch before them, and pillars and thick beams before them.
7 And he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, the porch of judgment; and (it was) covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
8 And his house he might dwell, (was in) the other court, within the porch, was of the like work; and the house (which) he would make for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom Solomon had taken (as a wife), (was) like this porch.
9 All these (were of) precious stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws within and without; and from the foundation up the coping, and from the outside until the great court.
10 And the foundation (was) of precious stones, great stones; stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
11 And above (were) precious stones, according to the measures of hewn stones and cedars.
12 And the great court round about (was of) three rows of hewn stones, and a row of cut beams of cedar, and for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
14 He (was) a widow’s son, of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a coppersmith; and he was filled with the wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in copper; and he came to king Solomon and wrought all his work.
15 And he cast the two pillars of copper, eighteen cubits (was) the height of each pillar, and a line of twelve cubits did encompass it about, and so the other pillar.
16 And he made two chapiters, to set upon the tops of the pillars, (of) molten copper; five cubits (was) the height of the one chapiter, and five cubits (was) the height of the other chapiter.
17 Nets of checker-work, wreaths of chain-work, for the chapiters which (were) upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
18 And he made the pillars; and two rows round about upon the one net-work, to cover the chapiters that (were) upon the top, with pomegranates; and so he did for the other chapiter.
19 And the chapiters that (were) upon the top of the pillars (were) of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
20 And (there were) chapiters above also upon the two pillars, over against the belly which (was) by the net-work; and the pomegranates (were) two hundred in rows round about upon each chapiter.
21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple; and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars (was) lily-work; so was the work of the pillars finished.
23 And he made the molten sea, ten cubits from brim to brim; it (was) round all about, and the height thereof (was) five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim (there were) knops compassing it round about, for ten cubits, compassing the sea round about; the knops (were) cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 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) upon them above, and all their hinder parts (were) inward.
26 And it (was) a hand-breadth thick, and the brim thereof (was) wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; it contained two thousand measures.
27 And he made the ten bases of copper; four cubits (was) the length of one base, and four cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height.
28 And the work of the bases (was) in this (manner); they had borders, and the borders (were) between the ledges.
29 And on the borders that (were) between the ledges (were) lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the ledges (there was) a base above; and beneath the lions and oxen (were) wreaths of thin work.
30 And each base had four copper wheels, and tablets of copper, and the four corners thereof had undersetters; under the laver the undersetters were molten, at the side of each (were) wreaths.
31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above (was) a cubit, and the mouth thereof (was) round (after) the work of a base, a cubit and a half; and also upon its mouth (were) gravings, and their borders (were) foursquare, not round.
32 And the four wheels (were) underneath the borders, and the axeltrees of the wheels (were) in the base; and the height of each wheel (was) a cubit and half a cubit.
33 And the work of the wheels (was) like the work of a chariot wheel; their axeltrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, (were) all molten.
34 And (there were) four undersetters at the four corners of each base; the undersetters (were) of the base itself.
35 And in the top of the base (there was) a round compass of half a cubit high; and on the top of the base its ledges and its borders (were one piece) of it.
36 And he graved on the tablets, on its ledges, and on its borders, cherubim, lions, and palm trees, according to the attachment of each, with wreaths round about.
37 After this (manner) he made the ten bases (there was) one casting, one measure, and one size to all of them.
38 And he made ten lavers of brass, each laver contained forty measures, and every laver (was) four cubits; one laver upon each of the ten bases.
39 And he set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house; and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. And Hiram finished doing all the work which he did for king Solomon (in) the house of the Lord.
41 The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that (were) on the top of the pillars; and the two net-works, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which (were) on the top of the pillars.
42 And the four hundred pomegranates for the two net-works, two rows of pomegranates for each net-work, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that (were) upon the pillars.
43 And the ten bases, and the ten lavers on the bases.
44 And the one sea, and the twelve oxen under the sea.
45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, and all these vessels, which Hiram made for king Solomon (in) the house of the Lord, (were) of bright copper.
46 In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the thick clay, between Succoth and Tsarethan.
47 And Solomon left all the vessels (unweighed), because (there were) very very many; (therefore) the weight of the copper was not found out.
48 And Solomon made all the vessels of that (were) in the house of the Lord; the altar of gold, and the table whereupon the showbread (was), of gold.
49 And the candlesticks, five on the right (side), and five on the left, before the Sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, of gold.
50 And the bowls, and the musical instruments, and the basins, and the spoons, and the censors, of pure gold; and the hinges, for the doors of the inner house, the most holy (place), (and) for the doors of the house, (that is) of the temple, of gold.
51 And all the work that king Solomon had wrought in the house of the Lord was finished. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, (and) put them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord.