1 Kings 7:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

1 Kings 7:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 7:22
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
1 Kings 6:18
And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
1 Kings 6:32-35
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-47)

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, 1 Chron. 29:2. What those things were we are not told, but some of the things of brass are here described and the rest mentioned. I. The brasier whom Solomon employed to preside in this part of the work was Hiram, or Huram (2 Chron.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

15-22. two pillars of brass of eighteen cubits high--They were made of the brass (bronze) which was taken from the king of Zobah (1Ch 18:8). In 2Ch 3:15 they are said to have been thirty-five cubits high. There, however, their joint lengths are given; whereas here the length of the pillars is given separately. Each pillar was seventeen and a half cubits long, which is stated, in round numbers, as…