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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Gill's Exposition
And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars,.... These were the ornaments of the chapiters; the former being like thick branches of…
Barnes' Notes
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…
We have here an account of the brass-work about the temple. There was no iron about the temple, though we find David preparing for the temple iron for things of iron, Ch1 29:2. What those things were…
Hiram a Tyrian worker in brass casts the pillars Jachin and Boaz (2Ch 2:4; 2Ch 3:15-17)
13. sent and fet -Fet" is the old English past tense of the verb -fetch," and occurs several times in the…
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