1 Kings 7:15
“For he cast two pillars of brasse of eighteene cubites high a piece: and a line of twelue cubites did compasse either of them about.”
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1 Kings 7:15 Context
13¶ And king Solomon sent and fet Hiram out of Tyre. 14Hee was a widowes sonne of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brasse, and he was filled with wisedome, and vnderstanding, and cunning to worke all workes in brasse: and hee came to king Solomon, and wrought all his worke. 15For he cast two pillars of brasse of eighteene cubites high a piece: and a line of twelue cubites did compasse either of them about. 16And hee made two Chapiters of molten brasse, to set vpon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was fiue cubites, and the height of the other chapiter was fiue cubites: 17And nets of checker worke, and wreathes of chaine worke, for the chapiters which were vpon the top of the pillars: seuen for the one chapiter, and seuen for the other chapiter.
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For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
- King James Version
He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of them about.
- American Standard Version (1901)
He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same.
- Basic English Bible
And 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.
- Darby Bible
For he cast two pillars of brass, each of eighteen cubits high: and a line of twelve cubits did encompass each of them.
- Webster's Bible
For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits encircled either of them about.
- World English Bible
And 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.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Thus he fashioned the two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high each; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it about; and so the other pillar.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible