The appearance of the wheels and their construction ¹  was like gleaming jasper, ²  and all four wheels looked alike. Their structure was like a wheel within a wheel. ³ 

Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace. ¹ 

The stands were constructed with frames between the joints.

Then this Sheshbazzar went and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem. From that time to the present moment ¹  it has been in the process of being rebuilt, although it is not yet finished.’

So Bezalel and Oholiab and every skilled person ¹  in whom the Lord has put skill ²  and ability ³  to know how ⁴  to do all the work for the service ⁵  of the sanctuary are to do the work ⁶  according to all that the Lord has commanded.”

All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary ¹  (namely, ²  the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, ³  according to the sanctuary shekel.

They would then hand over ¹  the silver that had been weighed to the construction foremen ²  assigned to the Lord’s temple. They hired carpenters and builders to work on the Lord’s temple,

From that day forward, half of my men were doing the work and half of them were taking up spears, ¹  shields, bows, and body armor. Now the officers were behind all the people ²  of Judah

Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ¹  along with men from Byblos, ²  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ³ 

Then the Jewish leaders ¹  said to him, “This temple has been under construction ²  for forty-six years, ³  and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

and for the second side of the tabernacle, the north side, twenty frames,

and their forty silver bases, two bases under the first frame and two bases under the next ¹  frame.

The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the construction of the pillars was completed.

with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate, ¹ 

Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest.” ¹ 

(1:18) ¹  Solomon ordered a temple to be built to honor the Lord, as well as a royal palace for himself. ² 

Now I am sending you Huram Abi, ¹  a skilled and capable man,

He began building on the second day of the second month of the fourth year of his reign. ¹ 

They ¹  also asked them, “What are the names of the men who are building this edifice?”

The city’s ¹  wall is made ²  of jasper and the city is pure gold, like transparent glass. ³