1 Kings 7:13-15

Common English Bible

Solomon’s temple equipment

¹³ Then King Solomon sent a message and brought Hiram from Tyre. ¹⁴ Hiram’s mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was a Tyrian skilled in bronze work. He was amazingly skillful in the techniques and knowledge for doing all kinds of work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.

¹⁵ He^[a] cast two bronze pillars. Each one was twenty-seven feet high and required a cord of eighteen feet to reach around it.^[b]