1 Kings 7
In the last chapter we saw that Solomon took 7 years to build a house for God, well not Solomon personally, it is like Hadrian's wall on the English Scottish border (which may get a new lease of life if Scotland votes for independence), Neither Solomon nor Hadrian actually built anything themselves, they just hired (or coerced) people to do it for them and then took the credit!
However Solomon took 13 years to build his temple - nearly twice as long as the temple of God.
His palace is enormous, 45 m long by 23 m wide by 14 m high - this is smaller than Buckingham palace (the Queens official residence) is 108 metres long and 24 m high. But Solomon's palace is still quite respectable
By contrast the Temple is 27 m long by 9 m wide and 14 m high.
Solomon took advice from Hiram of Tyre for advice on decoration - He made 2 huge columns out of bronze 8 m tall and 5.4 m in circumference with decorations and capitals shaped like lotus flowers, with pomegranates.
He also made a sea of bronze which was quite large and was used by the priests for ceremonial washing - there is a slight mathematical error in the Bible at this point, the Bible records that the sea is 10 cubits in diameter and 30 cubits around the rim - I suspect it was rounded down from 31.4151492654 cubits to 30.
The sea was decorated around and stood on 12 bronze oxen and would hold about 140 tonnes of water
Solomon also ordered 10 movable bowls with stands that each held about 880 kg of water. Along with various other items connected with the Temple
All of these bronze items were sand cast - a technique that is still sometimes used for bronze and iron to this day.
Solomon also made (or, more probably, ordered somebody to make while he took the credit) a gold alter, gold lamp stands, and censors as well has some door sockets (out of gold? - that is madness, gold is quite soft and is not generally used for load bearing applications as it is easy to deform.)
All this stuff Solomon had been passed by David to use for the Temple.
In the last chapter we saw that Solomon took 7 years to build a house for God, well not Solomon personally, it is like Hadrian's wall on the English Scottish border (which may get a new lease of life if Scotland votes for independence), Neither Solomon nor Hadrian actually built anything themselves, they just hired (or coerced) people to do it for them and then took the credit!
However Solomon took 13 years to build his temple - nearly twice as long as the temple of God.
His palace is enormous, 45 m long by 23 m wide by 14 m high - this is smaller than Buckingham palace (the Queens official residence) is 108 metres long and 24 m high. But Solomon's palace is still quite respectable
By contrast the Temple is 27 m long by 9 m wide and 14 m high.
Solomon took advice from Hiram of Tyre for advice on decoration - He made 2 huge columns out of bronze 8 m tall and 5.4 m in circumference with decorations and capitals shaped like lotus flowers, with pomegranates.
He also made a sea of bronze which was quite large and was used by the priests for ceremonial washing - there is a slight mathematical error in the Bible at this point, the Bible records that the sea is 10 cubits in diameter and 30 cubits around the rim - I suspect it was rounded down from 31.4151492654 cubits to 30.
The sea was decorated around and stood on 12 bronze oxen and would hold about 140 tonnes of water
Solomon also ordered 10 movable bowls with stands that each held about 880 kg of water. Along with various other items connected with the Temple
All of these bronze items were sand cast - a technique that is still sometimes used for bronze and iron to this day.
Solomon also made (or, more probably, ordered somebody to make while he took the credit) a gold alter, gold lamp stands, and censors as well has some door sockets (out of gold? - that is madness, gold is quite soft and is not generally used for load bearing applications as it is easy to deform.)
All this stuff Solomon had been passed by David to use for the Temple.
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