1 Kings 7:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

chapiters. Old French chapiteau, from Latin. capitu-lum. capitals, or crowns.

five cubits. So 2 Chronicles 3:15. But 2 Kings 25:17 says three cubits, not including the "wreathen" or lattice work, which is described separately, and must have been two cubits.

1 Kings 7:16

16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: