15 (A)He cast (B)two pillars of bronze. (C)Eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured its circumference. It was hollow, and its thickness was four fingers. The second pillar was the same.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:15 Targum, Syriac (compare Septuagint and Jeremiah 52:21); Hebrew and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of the second pillar

21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,[a] (A)its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.

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  1. Jeremiah 52:21 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

15 (A)In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each. 16 He made chains like a necklace[a] and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. 17 (B)He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on the north Boaz.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 3:16 Hebrew chains in the inner sanctuary

21 (A)He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple. He set up the pillar on the south and called its name Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called its name Boaz.

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13 And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

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12 the two pillars, (A)the bowls, and the two capitals on the top of the pillars; and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars; 13 (B)and the 400 pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars. 14 (C)He made the stands also, and the basins on the stands, 15 and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath it. 16 The pots, the shovels, (D)the forks, and all the equipment for these (E)(F)Huram-abi made of burnished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord. 17 In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredah.[a] 18 (G)Solomon made all these things in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze was not sought.

19 So Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God: the golden altar, (H)the tables for the bread of the Presence, 20 the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold (I)to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed; 21 the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of purest gold; 22 the snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold, and the sockets[b] of the temple, for the inner doors to the Most Holy Place and for the doors of the nave of the temple were of gold.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 4:17 Spelled Zarethan in 1 Kings 7:46
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:22 Compare 1 Kings 7:50; Hebrew the entrance of the house

16 As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, (A)the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight. 17 (B)The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,[a] and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.

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  1. 2 Kings 25:17 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

41 the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two (A)latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;

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