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.
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.
22. The lily-shaped caps were on top of the columns.This completed the work on the columns.
23. Hiram also made a large bowl called the Sea. It was just over two metres deep, about four and a half metres across, and thirteen and a half metres around.