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Tuesday, August 5th, 2025
the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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1 Kings 7:19

The capitals on top of the columns were shaped like flowers.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lilly;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Jachin and Boaz;   Lily;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Boaz;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Bronze;   Copper;   Hiram;   Lily;   Net;   Persecution in the Bible;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hiram;   Israel;   Jachin and Boaz;   Lily;   Temple;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Lily;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Boaz ;   Chapiter;   Lily,;   Pillar;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chapiter;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Lily;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jachin and Boaz;   Lily;   Lily-Work;   Temple;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, six feet high.
Hebrew Names Version
The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
King James Version
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
English Standard Version
Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.
New Century Version
The capitals on top of the pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies, and they were six feet tall.
New English Translation
The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high.
Amplified Bible
The capitals which were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work (design), four cubits.
New American Standard Bible
The capitals which were on the tops of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the chapiters that were on the toppe of the pillars were after lilye worke in ye porch, foure cubites.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now the capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.
Contemporary English Version
The caps for the columns of the porch were six feet high and were shaped like lilies.
Complete Jewish Bible
The capitals on the columns in the hall had shapes like lilies and were seven feet high.
Darby Translation
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily-work [as] in the porch, four cubits.
George Lamsa Translation
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
Good News Translation
The capitals were shaped like lilies, 6 feet tall,
Lexham English Bible
And on the capitals which were on top of the pillars in the porch were works of lilies four cubits high.
Literal Translation
And the capitals on the top of the pillars in the porch were lily-work, four cubits.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the knoppes were like roses before ye porche foure cubites greate.
American Standard Version
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
Bible in Basic English
The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the pommels that were on the top of the pillers, were after lillie worke in the porche foure cubites.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
King James Version (1611)
And the chapiters that were vpon the top of the pillars, were of lillie worke in the porch, foure cubites.
English Revised Version
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.
Berean Standard Bible
And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sotheli the pomels, that weren on the heedis of the pilers in the porche, weren maad as bi the werk of lilye, of foure cubitis;
Young's Literal Translation
And the chapiters that [are] on the top of the pillars [are] of lily-work in the porch, four cubits;
Update Bible Version
And the capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the capitals that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily-work in the porch, four cubits.
World English Bible
The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
New King James Version
The capitals which were on top of the pillars in the hall were in the shape of lilies, four cubits.
New Living Translation
The capitals on the columns inside the entry room were shaped like water lilies, and they were six feet tall.
New Life Bible
Now the top pieces on the pillars of the porch were made to look like lily flowers, as tall as a man.
New Revised Standard
Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits high.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the capitals which were upon the top of the pillars, were of lily work, in span, four cubits.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars, were of lily work, in the porch of four cubits.
Revised Standard Version
Now the capitals that were upon the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.

Contextual Overview

13 King Solomon sent for a man named Huram who lived in Tyre and brought him to Jerusalem. 14 Huram's mother was an Israelite from the tribe of Naphtali. His dead father was from Tyre. Huram made things from bronze. He was a very skilled and experienced builder. So King Solomon asked him to come, and Huram accepted. King Solomon put him in charge of all the bronze work, and Huram did all the work he was given to do. 15 Huram made two bronze columns for the porch. Each column was 18 cubits tall and 12 cubits around. The columns were hollow and their metal walls were 3 inches thick. 16 He also made two bronze capitals that were 5 cubits tall. He put these capitals on top of the columns. 17 He made two nets of chain to cover the capitals on top of the two columns. 18 Then he made two rows of bronze pomegranates. He put the bronze pomegranates on the nets of each column to cover the capitals at the top of the columns. 19 The capitals on top of the columns were shaped like flowers. 20 The capitals were on top of the columns, above the bowl-shaped net. There were 200 pomegranates in rows all around the capitals. 21 Huram put these two bronze columns at the porch of the Temple. One column was put on the south side of the entrance and one was put on the north side of it. The column on the south was named Jakin. The column on the north was named Boaz. 22 They put the flower-shaped capitals on top of the columns, and the work on the two columns was finished.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

lily work: 1 Kings 7:22, 1 Kings 6:18, 1 Kings 6:32-35

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:26 - with flowers 1 Chronicles 28:15 - the candlesticks

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of every kind of clean animal. And get one pair (one male and one female) of every other animal on the earth. Lead all these animals into the boat with you.
Genesis 7:3
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.
Genesis 7:9
went into the boat with Noah. These animals went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God commanded.
Job 12:15
If he holds back the rain, the earth will dry up. If he lets the rain loose, it will flood the land.
Jeremiah 3:23
It was foolish to worship idols on the hills. All the loud parties on the mountains were wrong. Surely the salvation of Israel comes from the Lord our God.
2 Peter 3:6
Then the world was flooded and destroyed with water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch,.... Or such as was in the porch of the temple; the work was like that wrought in the form of the flower of lilies open:

four cubits; of the five cubits of which the chapiters consisted, four of them were of lily work, the two rows of pomegranates taking up the other; though Dr. Lightfoot o thinks, that at the head of the pillar was a border or circle of lily work, that stood out four cubits under the chapiter, into and along the porch; a four cubit circle, after the manner of a spread lily.

o Prospect of the Temple, c. 13. sect. 2. p. 1075.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

There is a cornice of (so-called) lilywork at Persepolis, consisting of three ranges of broadish rounded leaves, one over the other. Lilies are also represented with much spirit on a bas-relief from Koyunjik.


 
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