Bible verse
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
1 Kings 7:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Kings 7.
12 The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.
13 Now King Solomon sent to bring Huram from Tyre.
14 He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Huram had great skill, understanding, and knowledge for every kind of bronze work. So he came to King Solomon and carried out all his work.
15 He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
16 He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
17 For the capitals on top of the pillars he made a network of lattice, with wreaths of chainwork, seven for each capital.
18 Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.
19 And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
20 On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.
KJV
And he made two chapiters [of] molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter [was] five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter [was] five cubits:
ASV
And he made two capitals of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
ERV
And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits.
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