2-3. Forest Hall was the largest room in the palace. It was forty-four metres long, twenty-two metres wide, and thirteen and a half metres high, and was lined with cedar from Lebanon. It had four rows of cedar pillars, fifteen in a row, and they held up forty-five cedar beams. The ceiling was covered with cedar.
15. Hiram made two bronze columns eight metres tall and almost two metres across.
16. For the top of each column, he also made a bronze cap just over two metres high.
17. The caps were decorated with seven rows of designs that looked like chains,
18. with two rows of designs that looked like pomegranates.
19. The caps for the columns of the porch were almost two metres high and were shaped like lilies.
20. The chain designs on the caps were just above the rounded tops of the two columns, and there were two hundred pomegranates in rows around each cap.
21. Hiram placed the two columns on each side of the main door of the temple. The column on the south side was called Jachin, and the one on the north was called Boaz.