The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of bronze was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of bronze; and the second pillar with its network was like these.
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The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of bronze was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of bronze; and the second pillar with its network was like these.
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The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
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The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the capital was three cubits; with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass; and like unto these had the second pillar with network.
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- 1 Kings 7:15-22 For he fashioned the two pillars of bronze, eighteen cubits high apiece; and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them. He made two capitals of molten bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. There were nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital. So he made the pillars; and there were two rows around on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and he did so for the other capital. The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits. There were capitals above also on the two pillars, close by the belly which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around the other capital. He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz. On the top of the pillars was lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.
- Jeremiah 52:21-23 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow. A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates. There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 25:17 The height of the one pillar [was]…
2Ki 25:17 The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
Ver. 17. The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits.] The height evinceth the weight; immensum erat pondus; such as was that of the Turks’ great ordinance used against the Rhodes, drawn by thirty-eight yoke of oxen, and fitly called the basilisk. {a}
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{a} Turk. Hist.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Compare with this description the accounts in marginal references.…
Compare with this description the accounts in marginal references. The height of the capital (“three cubits”) must be corrected, in accordance with those passages, to “five cubits.”
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 17. The height of the one pillar — To…
17. The height of the one pillar — To justify or explain the last remark, the writer here mentions the size and great ornamentation of the pillars.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. and the chapiter upon it was brass] R.V.…
17. and the chapiter upon it was brass] R.V. and a chapiter of brass was upon it. The sentence is not meant to state of what material the chapiter was, but that it was there on the top of the pillar.
wreathen work] R.V. network. Twice over the change is needed in this verse, to correspond with the rendering of A.V. in 1Ki_7:18; 1Ki_7:20; 1Ki_7:41-42.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) Three cubits.—An error of transcription for five. Five…
(17) Three cubits.—An error of transcription for five. Five cubits was the height of the capital according to 1Ki_7:16; Jer_52:22; 2Ch_3:15.
The wreathen work.—Lattice-work (1Ki_7:17).
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With wreathen work.—Upon the lattice-work. Thenius says this is the residuum of a sentence preserved in Jeremiah—namely, “And the pomegranates were ninety and six towards the outside; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the lattice-work round about” (Jer_52:23). Our text is, at any rate, much abridged.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The height of the one pillar wee eighteen cubits.…
The height of the one pillar wee eighteen cubits. comp. 1Ki_7:15 and, Jer_52:21, in which latter place an even more elaborate account of the pillars is given) and the chapiter upon it was brass; rather, and there was a chapiter (or capital) upon it of brassand the height of the chapiter three cubits. The measure given, both in 1Ki_7:16 and Jer_52:22, is five cubits," which is generally regarded as correct; but the proportion of 3 to 18, or one-sixth, is far more suitable for a capital than that of 5 to 18, or between a third and a fourth. And the wreathen work rather, and there was wreathen work, or networkand pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: (comp. 1Ki_7:18, 1Ki_7:19) and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. The ornamentation of the second pillar was the same as that of the first. (see Jer_52:22)
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 25:17 7½ feet is 5 cubits, a reading taken…
25:17 7½ feet is 5 cubits, a reading taken from parallel texts (see NLT note). The Hebrew text reads 3 cubits (4.5 feet), which might reflect the height of the decorative work adorning the upper part of the capital (cp. 1 Kgs 7:17-18).
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