1 Kings 7:22 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

1 Kings 7:22

20 The capitals on the two pillars also had pomegranates above, by the convex surface which was next to the network; and there were ^atwo hundred such pomegranates in rows on each of the capitals all around.

21 ^aThen he set up the pillars by the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the right and called its name¹ Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name² Boaz.

22 The tops of the pillars were in the shape of lilies. So the work of the pillars was finished.

The Sea and the Oxen

23 And he made ^athe Sea of cast bronze, ten cubits from one brim to the other; it was completely round. Its height was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

24 Below its brim were ornamental buds encircling it all around, ten to a cubit, ^aall the way around the Sea. The ornamental buds were cast in two rows when it was cast.

25 It stood on ^atwelve oxen: three looking toward the north, three looking toward the west, three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; the Sea was set upon them, and all their back parts pointed inward.

26 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained¹ two thousand baths.

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two pillars of brass of eighteen cubits high—They were made of the brass (bronze) which was taken from the king of Zobah (I Chronicles 18:8). In II Chronicles 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 follows: The pillars without the capitals measured thirty-two and a half feet long, and seven feet diameter; and if hollow, as WHISTON, in his translation of JOSEPHUS, thinks (Jeremiah 52:21), the metal would be about three and a half inches thick; so that the whole casting of one pillar must have been from sixteen to twenty tons. The height of the capitals was eight and three-fourths feet; and, at the same thickness of metal, would not weigh less than seven or eight tons each. The nature of the workmanship in the finishing of these capitals is described (I Kings 7:17-22). The pillars, when set up, would stand forty feet in height [NAPIER, Metal].

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