2 Chronicles 3:15-17

New International Version

¹⁵For the front of the temple he made two pillars,^(A) which together were thirty-five cubits^[a] long, each with a capital^(B) five cubits high. ¹⁶He made interwoven chains^[b]^(C) and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates^(D) and attached them to the chains. ¹⁷He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin^[c] and the one to the north Boaz.^[d]

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 3:15 That is, about 53 feet or about 16 meters
2 Chronicles 3:16 Or possibly made chains in the inner sanctuary; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
2 Chronicles 3:17 Jakin probably means he establishes.
2 Chronicles 3:17 Boaz probably means in him is strength.

2 Chronicles 4:11-18

New International Version

¹¹And Huram also made the pots and shovels and sprinkling bowls.

So Huram finished^(A) the work he had undertaken for King Solomon in the temple of God:

¹²the two pillars;

the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars;

¹³the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars);

¹⁴the stands^(B) with their basins;

¹⁵the Sea and the twelve bulls under it;

¹⁶the pots, shovels, meat forks and all related articles.

All the objects that Huram-Abi^(C) made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of polished bronze. ¹⁷The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth^(D) and Zarethan.^[a] ¹⁸All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze^(E) could not be calculated.