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15 He fashioned two bronze pillars, each one eighteen cubits[a] high, with a circumference of twelve cubits.[b] 16 He also crafted two capitals of cast bronze and set them on top of the pillars. The height of one capital was five cubits,[c] and the height of the other capital was five cubits.[d] 17 A network of latticework on top of the pillars was inlaid with ornamental wreaths and chains, the top of each pillar containing seven groups of ornamental structures.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:15 I.e. about 27 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  2. 1 Kings 7:15 I.e. about 18 feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  3. 1 Kings 7:16 I.e. about seven and a half feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
  4. 1 Kings 7:16 I.e. about seven and a half feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches

15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.

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