1 Kings 7:17-19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Nets of checker-work, &c., for the chapiters Which chapiters those nets and wreaths encompassed, either covering, and, as it were, receiving and holding the pomegranates, or being mixed with them. And he made Or, so he made, or framed, or perfected, the pillars, and two rows round about Of pomegranates, or some other curious work, which took up one of the five cubits, whereof the chapiter consisted. And the chapiters, &c., were of lily-work Were made in imitation of lilies. 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.

1 Kings 7:17-19

17 And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.

18 And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.

19 And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.