◄ 1 Kings 7:16 ►
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Good News Translation
He also made two bronze capitals, each one 7½ feet tall, to be placed on top of the columns.

New Revised Standard Version
He also made two capitals of molten bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

Contemporary English Version
For the top of each column, he also made a bronze cap just over two meters high.

New American Bible
He also made two capitals cast in bronze, to be placed on top of the columns, each of them five cubits high.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

Exodus 36:38 And five pillars with their heads, which he covered with gold, and their sockets he cast of brass.

Exodus 38:17,19,28 The sockets of the pillars were of brass, and their heads with all their gravings of silver: and he overlaid the pillars of the court also with silver. . . .

2 Chronicles 4:12,13 That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels. . . .

Context
The Work of Hiram
…15And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars. 16He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:17And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with wonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows of nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.…
Cross References
1 Kings 7:15
And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars.

1 Kings 7:17
And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with wonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows of nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.

Jeremiah 52:22
And chapiters of brass were upon both: and the height of one chapiter was five cubits: and network, and pomegranates were upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The same of the second pillar, and the pomegranates.

1 Kings 7:15
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