15He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits around, by line.


In Context

12 The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the Lord with its portico.

13 King Solomon sent to Tyre and brought Huram,

14 whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was a man of Tyre and a craftsman in bronze. Huram was highly skilled and experienced in all kinds of bronze work. He came to King Solomon and did all the work assigned to him.

15 He cast two bronze pillars, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits around, by line.

16 He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits high.

17 A network of interwoven chains festooned the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital.

1st Kings 7:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:15For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15For he cast two pillars of brass, each of eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve cubits did encompass each of them.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:15And he cast two pillars in brass, each pillar was eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve cubits compassed both the pillars.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:15For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of them about.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15And he formed the two pillars of brass; the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a line of twelve cubits encompassed the second pillar.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:15For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of them about.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:15And he formeth the two pillars of brass; eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits doth compass the second pillar.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:15For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.