The Bronze Pillars

¹⁵ He cast two hollow 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^[e] was also the height of the second capital. ¹⁷ The capitals on top of the pillars had gratings of latticework, wreaths^[f] 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^[g] high. ²⁰ The capitals on the two pillars were also immediately above the rounded surface next to the grating, and 200 pomegranates^(D) were in rows encircling each^[h] capital. ²¹ He set up the pillars at the portico^(E) of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin;^[i] then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.^{[j](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 reservoir that were in the Lord’s temple,^(A) and carried all the bronze to Babylon. ¹⁸ They took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. ¹⁹ The commander 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 reservoir, and the 12 bronze bulls under the water carts 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^[a] tall, had a circumference of 18 feet,^[b] was hollow—four fingers thick— ²² and had a bronze capital on top of it.^(C) One capital, encircled by bronze latticework and pomegranates, stood 7½ feet^[c] high. The second pillar was the same, with pomegranates. ²³ Each capital had 96 pomegranates all around it. All the pomegranates around the latticework numbered 100.

¹² The victor: I will make him a pillar in the sanctuary 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, which comes down out of heaven from My God—and My new name.^(A)