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I Kings Chapter 7

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In this chapter Solomon completes the dedication of the temple he built for God, inviting the priests and Levites to offer sacrifices and serve as caretakers. The narrative emphasizes the central role of the temple as a place of worship and the importance of faithful service. It also highlights the unity of the people in celebrating God’s presence.

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(1) But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
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I Kings 9:10II Chronicles 8:1Ecclesiastes 2:4Ecclesiastes 2:5Matthew 6:33

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I Kings 9:1II Chronicles 5:1I Kings 1:51I Kings 1:53II Chronicles 9:1

(2) He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
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I Kings 9:19I Kings 10:17II Chronicles 9:16Song of Solomon 7:4

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(3) And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
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I Kings 6:5

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(4) And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
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I Kings 7:5I Kings 6:4Isaiah 54:12Ezekiel 40:16Ezekiel 40:22Ezekiel 40:25Ezekiel 40:29Ezekiel 40:33Ezekiel 40:36Ezekiel 41:26

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Isaiah 30:26I Kings 7:5Isaiah 60:19Luke 11:36John 12:36Genesis 1:3

(5) And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
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(6) And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
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I Kings 7:2Ezekiel 41:2Ezekiel 40:48Genesis 6:15Ezekiel 40:49I Kings 6:2

(7) Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
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I Kings 6:3I Kings 10:18I Kings 10:19I Kings 10:20Psalms 122:5Isaiah 9:7I Kings 3:9I Kings 3:28Proverbs 20:8

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(8) And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.
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II Kings 20:4I Kings 3:1I Kings 9:24II Chronicles 8:11

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(9) All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
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I Kings 7:10I Kings 7:11I Kings 5:17

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(10) And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
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Isaiah 28:16Isaiah 54:11I Corinthians 3:10I Corinthians 3:11Revelation 21:19Revelation 21:20

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(11) And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
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Ephesians 2:20Ephesians 2:21Ephesians 2:22I Peter 2:5

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(12) And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
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I Kings 6:36John 10:23Acts 3:11Acts 5:12

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(13) And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre.
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I Kings 7:40II Chronicles 2:13II Chronicles 4:11

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(14) He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work.
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II Chronicles 2:14II Chronicles 4:16Exodus 31:2Exodus 31:3Exodus 31:4Exodus 31:5Exodus 31:6Exodus 35:30Exodus 35:31Exodus 35:32Exodus 35:33Exodus 35:34

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(15) For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
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I Kings 7:21II Kings 25:16II Kings 25:17II Chronicles 3:15II Chronicles 3:16II Chronicles 3:17II Chronicles 4:12II Chronicles 4:13II Chronicles 4:14II Chronicles 4:15II Chronicles 4:16II Chronicles 4:17

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Ezekiel 41:2II Chronicles 4:2Jeremiah 52:21Numbers 35:5I Kings 7:2I Kings 7:23

(16) And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:
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Exodus 36:38Exodus 38:17Exodus 38:19Exodus 38:28II Chronicles 4:12II Chronicles 4:13

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(17) And nets of checker work, and 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.
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Exodus 28:14Exodus 28:22Exodus 28:24Exodus 28:25Exodus 39:15Exodus 39:16Exodus 39:17Exodus 39:18II Kings 25:17

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(18) And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
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Exodus 28:14Exodus 28:22Exodus 28:24Exodus 28:25Exodus 39:15Exodus 39:16Exodus 39:17Exodus 39:18II Kings 25:17

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(19) And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
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I Kings 7:22I Kings 6:18I Kings 6:32I Kings 6:33I Kings 6:34I Kings 6:35

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(20) And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
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II Kings 25:17II Chronicles 3:16II Chronicles 4:13Jeremiah 52:22Jeremiah 52:23

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(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.
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II Chronicles 3:17Galatians 2:9Revelation 3:12I Kings 7:12I Kings 6:3Ezekiel 40:48Ezekiel 40:49II Samuel 7:12Isaiah 9:7Ruth 4:21Isaiah 45:24Matthew 16:18

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(22) And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
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(23) And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
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Exodus 30:18Exodus 30:19Exodus 30:20Exodus 30:21Exodus 38:8II Kings 25:13II Chronicles 4:2Jeremiah 52:17Jeremiah 52:20

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(24) And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
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I Kings 6:18Exodus 25:31Exodus 25:32Exodus 25:33Exodus 25:34Exodus 25:35Exodus 25:36Exodus 37:17Exodus 37:18Exodus 37:19Exodus 37:20Exodus 37:21

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(25) It stood upon 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 above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
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II Chronicles 4:4II Chronicles 4:5Jeremiah 52:20Ezekiel 1:10Matthew 28:19Mark 16:15Mark 16:16Luke 24:47I Corinthians 9:9Revelation 4:6Revelation 4:7

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(26) And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
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Jeremiah 52:21I Kings 7:19I Kings 6:18I Kings 6:32I Kings 6:35I Kings 7:38II Chronicles 4:5Ezekiel 45:14

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(27) And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
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II Kings 25:13II Kings 25:16II Chronicles 4:14Jeremiah 52:17Jeremiah 52:20

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(28) And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
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(29) And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
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(30) And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
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(31) And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
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(32) And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
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(33) And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
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(34) And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
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(35) And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
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(36) For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
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(37) After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
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(38) Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.
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(39) And he put five bases 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 over against the south.
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(40) And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
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(41) The two pillars, and the two bowls of the chapiters that were on the top of the two pillars; and the two networks, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars;
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I Kings 7:15I Kings 7:16I Kings 7:17I Kings 7:18I Kings 7:19I Kings 7:20I Kings 7:21I Kings 7:22II Chronicles 4:12

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(42) And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
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(43) And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
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(44) And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;
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(45) And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD, were of bright brass.
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(46) In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
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(47) And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
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(48) And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
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(49) And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,
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(50) And the bowls, and the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers of pure gold; and the hinges of gold, both for the doors of the inner house, the most holy place, and for the doors of the house, to wit, of the temple.
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(51) So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.
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