New Living Translation
1 Kings 7:15
15Huram cast two bronze pillars, each 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference.
1 Kings 7:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
- New International Version (NIV)He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He cast two pillars of bronze. 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And he cast two pillars of bronze, each one eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of each.
Context of 1 Kings 7:15
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. Huram 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.
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וַיָּ֛צַר אֶת־שְׁנֵ֥י הָעַמּוּדִ֖ים נְחֹ֑שֶׁת שְׁמֹנֶ֨ה עֶשְׂרֵ֜ה אַמָּ֗ה קוֹמַת֙ הָעַמּ֣וּד הָאֶחָ֔ד וְחוּט֙ שְׁתֵּים־עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה אַמָּ֔ה יָסֹ֖ב אֶת־הָעַמּ֥וּד הַשֵּׁנִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- For he castצוּרtsûr · to formH6696
- twoשְׁנַ֫יִםshenayim shettayim · twoH8147
- pillarsעַמּוּד‛ammûd ‛ammûd · pillarH5982
- of brassנְחֹ֫שֶׁתnechôsheth · bronzeH5178
- of eighteenעָשָׂר‛âώâr · tenH6240
- of eighteenשְׁמֹנֶהshemôneh shemôneh shemônâh shemônâh · eightH8083
- cubitsאַמָּה'ammâh · cubitH520
- highקוֹמָהqômâh · heightH6967
- apieceאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
- and a lineחוּטchûţ · threadH2339
- did compassסָבַבsâbab · to turn: turnH5437
- eitherשֵׁנִיshênîy · secondH8145
Cross-references for 1 Kings 7:15
- 1 Kings 7:21Huram 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.
- 2 Kings 25:16The weight of the bronze from the two pillars, the Sea, and the water carts was too great to be measured. These things had been made for the Lord’s Temple in the days of Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 3:15For the front of the Temple, he made two pillars that were 27 feet tall, each topped by a capital extending upward another 7-1/2 feet.
- 2 Chronicles 4:12the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars; the two networks of interwoven chains that decorated the capitals;
- Jeremiah 52:21Each of the pillars was 27 feet tall and 18 feet in circumference. They were hollow, with walls 3 inches thick.
- 2 Kings 25:13The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars in front of the Lord’s Temple, the bronze water carts, and the great bronze basin called the Sea, and they carried all the bronze away to Babylon.
Commentaries on 1 Kings 7:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15He cast two pillars - eighteen cubits high - That is, about thirty feet in English measure. A line of twelve cubits - In circumference. It would be difficult even now to procure a founder who could cast such massive pillars, whether solid or hollow.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15These famous pillars, which were broken in pieces by the Babylonians when they destroyed Jerusalem 2 Kings 25:13; Jeremiah 52:17, were probably for ornament, standing by themselves under or in front of the porch. It is certain that the Phoenicians used isolated metal columns as sacred ornaments, so that Hiram would be familiar with such a mode of ornamentation. Eighteen cubits appear to have been the height of the shaft only. Adding the capital 1 Kings…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-47Verses 13-47 The two brazen pillars in the porch of the temple, some think, were to teach those that came to worship, to depend upon God only, for strength and establishment in all their religious exercises. "Jachin," God will fix this roving mind. It is good that the heart be established with grace. "Boaz," In him is our strength, who works in us both to will and to do. Spiritual strength and stability are found at the door of God's temple, where we must…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 15-22The two bronze pillars were likely free-standing because the narrator mentions them here instead of during the earlier discussion of the temple structure (1 Kings 6:3–6).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-2215-22. two pillars of brass of eighteen cubits high--They were made of the brass (bronze) which was taken from the king of Zobah (1Ch 18:8). In 2Ch 3:15 they are said to have been thirty-five cubits high. There, however, their joint lengths are given; whereas here the length of the pillars is given separately. Each pillar was seventeen and a half cubits long, which is stated, in round numbers, as eighteen. Their dimensions in English measure are as…Read the comment
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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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