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And the great court round about had three orders of hewed stones and an order of cedar beams, and
likewise the inner court of the house of the LORD and the porch of the house.
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And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram out of Tyre,
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who was a widow’s son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father had been of Tyre. A worker in brass, full of wisdom and intelligence and knowledge in all work of brass. And he came to King Solomon and did all his work.
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He made two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece, and a line of twelve cubits did compass each of them about.
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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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And nets of checker work and wreaths of chain work for the chapiters which
were to be placed upon the top of the pillars, seven for the one chapiter and seven for the other chapiter.
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And when he had made the pillars, he also made two orders
of pomegranates round about upon the network to cover the chapiters that
were upon the heads
of the pillars with the pomegranates, and so did he for the other chapiter.
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And the chapiters that
were upon the top of the pillars were in the form of lilies
like those seen in the porch, for four cubits.
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And the chapiters upon the two pillars had two hundred pomegranates in two orders round about in each chapiter, on top of the belly of the chapiter, this belly being in front of the network.
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And he stood up the pillars in the porch of the temple. And when he had set up the right pillar, he called the name of it Jachin; {Heb. The LORD establishes}; and in standing up the left pillar, he called its name Boaz. {Heb. Only in Him is there strength}
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And upon the top of the pillars
was lily work, and so the work of the pillars was finished.