1 Kings 7:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Hiram made two bronze columns eight metres tall and almost two metres across.

Cross References

1 Kings 7:16

For the top of each column, he also made a bronze cap just over two metres high.

1 Kings 7:21

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.

1 Kings 7:41

two columns; two bowl-shaped caps for the tops of the columns; two chain designs on the caps;

2 Kings 25:13

The Babylonian soldiers took the two bronze columns that stood in front of the temple, the ten moveable bronze stands, and the large bronze bowl called the Sea. They broke them into pieces so they could take the bronze to Babylonia.

1 Chronicles 18:8

He also took a lot of bronze from the cities of Tibhath and Cun, which had belonged to Hadadezer. Later, Solomon used this bronze to make the large bowl called the Sea, and to make the pillars and other furnishings for the temple.

Jeremiah 27:19

After all, when Nebuchadnezzar took King Jehoiachin to Babylonia as a prisoner, he didn't take everything of value from Jerusalem. He left the bronze pillars, the huge bronze bowl called the Sea, and the moveable bronze stands in the temple, and he left a lot of other valuable things in the palace and in the rest of Jerusalem. But now I, the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, say that all these things

Jeremiah 52:13

and he burnt down the LORD's temple, the king's palace, and every important building in the city, as well as all the houses.

Jeremiah 52:17

Nebuzaradan ordered his soldiers to go to the temple and take everything made of gold or silver, including bowls, fire pans, sprinkling bowls, pans, lampstands, dishes for incense, and the cups for wine offerings. The Babylonian soldiers took all the bronze things used for worship at the temple, including the pans for hot ashes, and the shovels, lamp snuffers, sprinkling bowls, and dishes for incense. The soldiers also took everything else made of bronze, including the two columns that stood in front of the temple, the large bowl called the Sea, the twelve bulls that held it up, and the moveable stands. The soldiers broke these things into pieces so they could take them to Babylonia. There was so much bronze that it could not be weighed.

Jeremiah 52:21

For example, the columns were about eight metres high and five metres around. They were hollow, but the bronze was about seventy-five millimetres thick.

Ezekiel 40:49

The porch itself was ten metres by six metres, with steps leading up to it. There was a column on each side of these steps.