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Contemporary English Version

1 Kings 7:16

For the top of each column, he also made a bronze cap seven and a half feet high.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Art;   Brass;   Carving;   Chapiter;   Hiram;   Master Workman;   Mechanic;   Pillar;   Temple;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Brass, or Copper;   Pillars;   Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Chapiter;   Jachin and Boaz;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Bronze;   Chapiter;   Copper;   Hiram;   Persecution in the Bible;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jachin and Boaz;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Boaz ;   Chapiter;   Pillar;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chapiter;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Temple;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jachin and Boaz;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Metals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars; 7 feet was the height of the first capital, and 7 feet was also the height of the second capital.
Hebrew Names Version
He made two capitals of molten brass, 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.
King James Version
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:
English Standard Version
He also made two capitals of cast 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.
New Century Version
He also made two bronze capitals that were seven and one-half feet tall, and he put them on top of the pillars.
New English Translation
He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high.
Amplified Bible
He also made two capitals (crowns) of cast bronze to put on the tops of the pillars; the height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
New American Standard Bible
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to put 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he made two chapiters of molten brasse to set on the tops of the pillars: the height of one of the chapiters was fiue cubites, and the height of the other chapiter was fiue cubites.
Legacy Standard Bible
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
He made two capitals of melted bronze to set on the tops of the columns; each capital was eight-and-three-quarters feet high;
Darby Translation
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;
Easy-to-Read Version
He also made two bronze capitals that were 5 cubits tall. He put these capitals on top of the columns.
George Lamsa Translation
And he made two capitals of molten brass to set upon the tops of the pillars; the height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other was five cubits;
Good News Translation
He also made two bronze capitals, each one 7½ feet tall, to be placed on top of the columns.
Lexham English Bible
He made two capitals to place on the tops of the pillars out of molten bronze; the first capital was five cubits in height, and the second capital was five cubits in height.
Literal Translation
And he made two capitals to put on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the one capital, and five cubits the height of the second capital.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and he made two knoppes of brasse molten, to set aboue vpon the pilers: and euery knoppe was fyue cubytes hye:
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the crowns were five cubits high.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he made two pommels of moulten brasse, [after the fashion of a crowne,] to set on the toppes of the pillers: The height of the one head peece contayned fiue cubites, and the height of the other head peece contayned fiue cubites also.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And hee made two Chapiters of molten brasse, to set vpon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was fiue cubites, and the height of the other chapiter was fiue cubites:
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also he made twei pomels, yotun of bras, that weren set on the heedis of the pilers; o pomel of fyue cubitis of hiythe, and the tothir pomel of fyue cubitis of heiythe; and bi the maner of a net,
Young's Literal Translation
And two chapiters he hath made to put on the tops of the pillars, cast in brass; five cubits the height of the one chapiter, and five cubits the height of the second chapiter.
Update Bible Version
And he 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.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he made two capitals [of] molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the hight of the one capital [was] five cubits, and the hight of the other capital [was] five cubits:
World English Bible
He made two capitals of molten brass, 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.
New King James Version
Then he made two capitals of cast bronze, to set on the tops of the pillars. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.
New Living Translation
For the tops of the pillars he cast bronze capitals, each 7 1⁄2 feet tall.
New Life Bible
He made two top pieces of melted brass to set on the tops of the pillars. One piece to go on top was as tall as a man can raise his hand. And the other piece to go on top was as tall as a man can raise his hand.
New Revised Standard
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, two capitals, made he, to set upon the tops of the pillars, of molten bronze, - five cubits, was the height of the one capital, and, five cubits, the height of the other capital;
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:
Revised Standard Version
He also made two capitals of molten bronze, 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
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.

Contextual Overview

13Hiram was a skilled bronze worker from the city of Tyre. His father was now dead, but he also had been a bronze worker from Tyre, and his mother was from the tribe of Naphtali. King Solomon asked Hiram to come to Jerusalem and make the bronze furnishings to use for worship in the Lord 's temple, and he agreed to do it. 15 Hiram made two bronze columns twenty-seven feet tall and about six feet across. 16 For the top of each column, he also made a bronze cap seven and a half feet high. 17 The caps were decorated with seven rows of designs that looked like chains, 18 with two rows of designs that looked like pomegranates. 19 The caps for the columns of the porch were six feet high and were shaped like lilies. 20 The chain designs on the caps were right above the rounded tops of the two columns, and there were two hundred pomegranates in rows around each cap. 21 Hiram placed the two columns on each side of the main door of the temple. The column on the south side was called Jachin, and the one on the north was called Boaz. 22 The lily-shaped caps were on top of the columns. This completed the work on the columns. 23 Hiram also made a large bowl called the Sea. It was seven and a half feet deep, about fifteen feet across, and forty-five feet around.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 36:38, Exodus 38:17, Exodus 38:19, Exodus 38:28, 2 Chronicles 4:12, 2 Chronicles 4:13

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 25:17 - one pillar Isaiah 8:6 - refuseth John 6:13 - and filled

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
The Lord told Noah: Take your whole family with you into the boat, because you are the only one on this earth who pleases me.
Genesis 7:2
Take seven pairs of every kind of animal that can be used for sacrifice and one pair of all others.
Genesis 7:3
Also take seven pairs of every kind of bird with you. Do this so there will always be animals and birds on the earth.
Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now I will send rain that will last for forty days and nights, and I will destroy all other living creatures I have made.
Genesis 7:5
Noah was six hundred years old when he went into the boat to escape the flood, and he did everything the Lord had told him to do. His wife, his sons, and his daughters-in-law all went inside with him.
Genesis 7:10
Seven days later a flood began to cover the earth.
Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is our hiding place; he carries us in his arms. When God tells you to destroy your enemies, he will make them run.
Psalms 46:2
And so, we won't be afraid! Let the earth tremble and the mountains tumble into the deepest sea.
Proverbs 3:23
You will walk safely and never stumble;
Matthew 25:10
While the foolish girls were on their way to get some oil, the groom arrived. The girls who were ready went into the wedding, and the doors were closed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars,.... These were large ovals in the form of a crown, as the word signifies; or like two crowns joined together, as Ben Gersom; or bowls, as they are called, 1 Kings 7:41,

the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits; in 2 Kings 25:17 they are said to be but three cubits high; but that is to be understood only of the ornamented part of them, the wreathen work and pomegranates on them, as there expressed; here it includes, with that, the part below unornamented.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The general character of the “chapiters” or capitals, their great size in proportion to the shaft, which is as one to two, and their construction of two quite different members, remind us of the pillars used by the Persians in their palaces, which were certainly more like Jachin and Boaz than any pillars that have reached us from antiquity. The ornamentation, however, seems to have been far more elaborate than that of the Persian capitals.


 
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