New Living Translation
1 Kings 7:13-22
13King Solomon then asked for a man named Huram to come from Tyre.
14He was half Israelite, since his mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. Huram was extremely skillful and talented in any work in bronze, and he came to do all the metal work for King Solomon.
15Huram cast two bronze pillars, each 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference.
16For the tops of the pillars he cast bronze capitals, each 7-1/2 feet tall.
17Each capital was decorated with seven sets of latticework and interwoven chains.
18He also encircled the latticework with two rows of pomegranates to decorate the capitals over the pillars.
19The capitals on the columns inside the entry room were shaped like water lilies, and they were six feet tall.
20The capitals on the two pillars had 200 pomegranates in two rows around them, beside the rounded surface next to the latticework.
21Huram set the pillars at the entrance of the Temple, one toward the south and one toward the north. He named the one on the south Jakin, and the one on the north Boaz.
22The capitals on the pillars were shaped like water lilies. And so the work on the pillars was finished.
Commentaries on 1 Kings 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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