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Monuments of Majesty
Commentators explain these two massive bronze pillars were likely not structural supports but freestanding symbolic monuments. With shafts about 27 feet high and a circumference of 18 feet, their immense size and elaborate ornamentation were designed to impress upon worshippers the majesty and glory of God's temple.
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Kings 7:15
18th Century
Theologian
These famous pillars, which were broken to pieces by the Babylonians when they destroyed Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:13; [Reference Jeremiah …
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Kings 7:15–22
19th Century
Bishop
With regard to the two pillars, Jachin (“He shall establish”) and Boaz (“In it is strength”), the text gives no account of their …
John Gill
On 1 Kings 7:15
17th Century
Pastor
For he cast two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high
apiece
In ([Reference 2 Chroni…
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Matthew Henry
On 1 Kings 7:13–47
17th Century
Minister
Some think the two brazen pillars in the porch of the temple were to teach those who came to worship to depend on God alone for strength and establ…