Otras construcciones de Salomón
1 Salomón construyó su propio palacio, y lo terminó en trece años.
2-3 También edificó el palacio llamado «Bosque del Líbano». Lo hizo de cuarenta y cinco metros de largo, veintidós metros y medio de ancho y trece metros y medio de alto. Le puso un cielo raso de madera, sostenido por cuarenta y cinco vigas de cedro. Las vigas estaban distribuidas en tres grupos de quince cada uno, y se apoyaban sobre cuatro hileras de columnas de cedro.
4-5 Salomón mandó a hacer tres hileras con tres ventanas cada una, y colocarlas una frente a la otra. También le colocó tres puertas a ambos lados.
6 Además, Salomón construyó el Salón de las Columnas, de veintidós metros y medio de largo, y trece metros y medio de ancho. Enfrente había otro salón con columnas y techo.
7 También edificó el Salón de la Justicia, en el que Salomón escuchaba los problemas del pueblo y decidía cómo resolverlos. Ese salón estaba totalmente cubierto de madera de cedro.
8 El palacio en el que vivía Salomón estaba frente al Salón de la Justicia, separado por un patio. Este salón y el palacio se parecían mucho. Además, para la hija del rey de Egipto, que era su esposa, edificó otro palacio parecido al suyo.
9 Por dentro y por fuera, todas estas construcciones fueron hechas con piedras costosas, cortadas a la medida. 10 La base del edificio estaba construida con las mejores piedras. Algunas medían cuatro metros y medio, y otras, tres metros con sesenta centímetros.
11 La parte superior del edificio también estaba hecha de cedro, y de piedras costosas, cortadas a la medida.
12 Alrededor del patio grande del palacio se pusieron tres hileras de esas piedras, y una hilera de vigas de cedro que servían para sostener el edificio. Esto mismo se había hecho en el patio interior del templo y en el salón de la entrada del palacio.
Hiram realiza los trabajos de bronce
(2 Cr 2.2-182 3.15-17)13 El rey Salomón mandó a llamar a Hiram, que vivía en la ciudad de Tiro. 14 Hiram era hijo de una viuda de la tribu de Neftalí. Su padre era de Tiro y le había enseñado a trabajar el bronce, así que Hiram era muy hábil y capaz.
Hiram se presentó ante el rey Salomón, y realizó en sus construcciones todos los trabajos de bronce. 15 Hizo dos columnas que medían ocho metros de alto, y cinco metros y medio de circunferencia. 16-22 También preparó en bronce el adorno de la parte superior de cada columna. Ese adorno tenía forma de lirio, y medía dos metros y veinticinco centímetros de alto. Estaba decorado con figuras en forma de cadena. La parte más alta y ancha del adorno de bronce tenía dos hileras de figuras en forma de manzana. Cada hilera estaba formada por cien de esas figuras. Cuando las columnas estuvieron terminadas, Hiram las colocó en el salón de la entrada del templo. A la columna de la derecha la llamó Jaquín y a la de la izquierda Bóaz.
El gran tanque de agua
(2 Cr 4.1-5)23 Después Hiram fabricó un enorme tanque para el agua. Era redondo, y de un borde al otro medía cuatro metros. Su altura era de dos metros y veinticinco centímetros, y su circunferencia era de trece metros y medio. 24 Decoró todo el borde con dos enredaderas llenas de frutos. Cada cuarenta y cinco centímetros había diez frutos.
25 El tanque estaba sobre doce toros de bronce. Tres de estos toros miraban al norte, tres al sur, tres al este y tres al oeste, de modo que sus patas traseras quedaban hacia adentro. 26 Las paredes del tanque eran de ocho centímetros de grueso. Su borde se parecía a una flor de lirio abierta. En el tanque cabían cuarenta y cuatro mil litros de agua.
Los diez recipientes
(2 Cr 4.6)27 Hiram hizo también diez bases de bronce. Cada base era cuadrada, de un metro y ochenta centímetros por lado. Su altura era de un metro y treinta y cinco centímetros.
28-36 Cada lado de esas bases estaba decorado con figuras de leones, toros y querubines. Arriba y abajo de los toros y los leones había adornos florales. Cada lado estaba sujeto por un marco, y formaba con la base una sola pieza.
Cada base tenía cuatro ruedas de bronce. Sus ejes también eran de bronce y estaban sujetos a la base.
En las cuatro esquinas de la base había cuatro agarraderas de bronce decoradas con adornos florales, que servían para moverla. Estas agarraderas y la base formaban una sola pieza.
La boca para el recipiente era redonda, y tenía grabados con marcos cuadrados. Tenía un soporte de sesenta y ocho centímetros de alto y estaba dentro de un cerco que sobresalía cuarenta y cinco centímetros.
La parte superior de la base terminaba en un borde circular de veintidós centímetros y medio de alto. Hiram le talló alrededor querubines, leones, palmeras y guirnaldas, según el espacio que tenía. 37 Así fue como hizo las diez bases. Todas tenían la misma forma y tamaño, pues usó el mismo molde.
38 También hizo diez recipientes de bronce. Cada uno tenía un metro y ochenta centímetros de diámetro, y le cabían ochocientos ochenta litros de agua. Colocó cada recipiente sobre cada una de las bases que había hecho. 39 Cinco estaban en el lado derecho del templo y cinco en el lado izquierdo. El tanque grande lo puso en la esquina sureste del edificio.
Hiram termina sus trabajos
(2 Cr 4.7-18)40 Hiram también hizo las ollas, las palas y las vasijas. Así terminó todo el trabajo que hizo para el templo de Dios, por encargo del rey Salomón.
41 Estos son todos los trabajos que realizó: las dos columnas, la parte superior de cada columna, las dos decoraciones en la parte superior de las columnas, 42 y las cuatrocientas figuras de esas decoraciones. 43 También hizo las diez bases y los recipientes que iban sobre ellas, 44 el gran tanque para el agua y los doce toros que lo sostenían, 45 y las ollas, palas y vasijas.
Todo lo que Hiram hizo para el templo de Dios a pedido del rey Salomón era de bronce pulido. 46 Los utensilios de bronce los hicieron en moldes de arena, en la región del Jordán, entre Sucot y Saretán. 47 Salomón no pidió que pesaran los utensilios de bronce porque eran muchos.
Los utensilios del templo
(2 Cr 4.19—5.1)48-50 Salomón también mandó hacer todos los utensilios que había en el templo de Dios. Los de oro puro eran:
el altar,
la mesa de los panes para Dios,
los diez candelabros del Lugar Santo,
las figuras de flores,
las lámparas,
las tenazas,
las copas,
las tijeras para cortar mechas,
las vasijas,
los cucharones,
los incensarios,
las bisagras de las puertas del Lugar Santísimo,
las bisagras de la puerta de la entrada principal del edificio.
51 De este modo se terminaron todos los trabajos que Salomón mandó a hacer para el templo de Dios. Después llevó todos los utensilios de oro y de plata que su padre David había dedicado para Dios, y los guardó en el lugar donde estaban los tesoros del templo de Dios.
1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
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. 3 And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. 4 And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. 5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
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.
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.
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. 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. 10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. 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.
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 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. 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. 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: 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. 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. 19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 28 And the work of the bases was on 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 cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work. 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. 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. 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. 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. 34 And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself. 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. 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. 37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
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. 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.
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: 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; 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; 43 And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases; 44 And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea; 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. 46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan. 47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed , because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
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 , 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, 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. 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.