1-Kings - 7:19



19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Kings 7:19.

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And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily-work as in the porch, four cubits.
And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily-work in the porch, four cubits.
The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across.
Now the heads that were at the top of the columns, in the portico of four cubits, had been fabricated with a work of lilies.

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Historical Commentaries

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There is a cornice of (so-called) lilywork at Persepolis, consisting of three ranges of broadish rounded leaves, one over the other. Lilies are also represented with much spirit on a bas-relief from Koyunjik.

And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of (k) lily work in the porch, four cubits.
(k) As was seen commonly wrought in costly porches.

And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch,.... Or such as was in the porch of the temple; the work was like that wrought in the form of the flower of lilies open:
four cubits; of the five cubits of which the chapiters consisted, four of them were of lily work, the two rows of pomegranates taking up the other; though Dr. Lightfoot (o) thinks, that at the head of the pillar was a border or circle of lily work, that stood out four cubits under the chapiter, into and along the porch; a four cubit circle, after the manner of a spread lily.
(o) Prospect of the Temple, c. 13. sect. 2. p. 1075.

lily work--beautiful ornaments, resembling the stalks, leaves, and blossoms of lilies--of large dimensions, as suited to the height of their position.

Lilly work - Made like the leaves of lillies. In the porch - Or, as in the porch; such work as there was in the porch of the temple, in which these pillars were set, 1-Kings 7:21, that so the work of the tops of these pillars might agree with that in the top of the porch.

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