The Bronze Pillars

¹⁵ He cast two bronze pillars,^(A) each 27 feet^[a] high and 18 feet^[b] in circumference.^{[c](B) 16} He also made two capitals^(C) of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars; 7½ feet^[d] was the height of the first capital, and 7½ feet was also the height of the second capital. ¹⁷ The capitals on top of the pillars had gratings of latticework, wreaths^[e] made of chainwork—seven for the first capital and seven for the second.

¹⁸ He made the pillars with two encircling rows of pomegranates on the one grating to cover the capital on top; he did the same for the second capital. ¹⁹ And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, six feet^[f] high. ²⁰ The capitals on the two pillars were also immediately above the rounded surface next to the grating, and two hundred pomegranates^(D) were in rows encircling each^[g] capital. ²¹ He set up the pillars at the portico^(E) of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin;^[h] then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.^{[i](F) 22} The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. Then the work of the pillars was completed.^(G)

¹⁷ Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the right and one on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin^[a] and the one on the left Boaz.^[b]

¹⁷ Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the Lord’s temple and the water carts and the bronze basin^[a] that were in the Lord’s temple,^(A) and they carried all the bronze to Babylon. ¹⁸ They also took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. ¹⁹ The captain of the guards took away the bowls, firepans, sprinkling basins, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls^(B)—whatever was gold or silver.

²⁰ As for the two pillars, the one basin, with the twelve bronze oxen under it, and the water carts^[b] that King Solomon had made for the Lord’s temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. ²¹ One pillar was 27 feet^[c] tall, had a circumference of 18 feet,^[d] was hollow—four fingers thick— ²² and had a bronze capital on top of it.^(C) One capital, encircled by bronze grating and pomegranates, stood 7½ feet^[e] high. The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates. ²³ Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates all around it. All the pomegranates around the grating numbered one hundred.

¹² “The one who conquers I will make a pillar^(A) in the temple of my God, and he will never go out again. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God—the new Jerusalem,^(B) which comes down out of heaven from my God—and my new name.^(C)