1 Kings 7:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Hiram’s mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was a Tyrian skilled in bronze work. He was amazingly skillful in the techniques and knowledge for doing all kinds of work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.

¹⁵ He^[a] cast two bronze pillars. Each one was twenty-seven feet high and required a cord of eighteen feet to reach around it.^{[b] 16} He made two capitals of cast bronze for the tops of the columns. They were each seven and a half feet high.