¹⁵ He cast two bronze pillars,^(A) each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.^{[a] 16} He also made two capitals^(B) of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits^[b] high. ¹⁷ A network of interwoven chains adorned the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital. ¹⁸ He made pomegranates in two rows^[c] encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars.^[d] He did the same for each capital. ¹⁹ The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubits^[e] high. ²⁰ On the capitals of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped part next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates^(C) in rows all around. ²¹ He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin^[f] and the one to the north Boaz.^{[g](D) 22} The capitals on top were in the shape of lilies. And so the work on the pillars^(E) was completed.

¹³ The Babylonians broke^(A) up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the Lord and they carried the bronze to Babylon.

¹⁹ For this is what the Lord Almighty says about the pillars, the bronze Sea,^(A) the movable stands and the other articles^(B) that are left in this city, ²⁰ which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take away when he carried^(C) Jehoiachin^[a](D) son of Jehoiakim king of Judah into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, along with all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem— ²¹ yes, this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says about the things that are left in the house of the Lord and in the palace of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem: ²² ‘They will be taken^(E) to Babylon and there they will remain until the day^(F) I come for them,’ declares the Lord. ‘Then I will bring^(G) them back and restore them to this place.’”

²⁰ The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the twelve bronze bulls^(A) under it, and the movable stands, which King Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord, was more than could be weighed.^{(B) 21} Each pillar was eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference^[a]; each was four fingers thick, and hollow.^{(C) 22} The bronze capital^(D) on top of one pillar was five cubits^[b] high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates^(E) of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar. ²³ There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates^(F) above the surrounding network was a hundred.^(G)