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For he fashioned the two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits compassed either of them about.
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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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1 Kings
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18th Century
Presbyterian
These famous pillars, which were broken to pieces by the Babylonians when they destroyed Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:13; [Reference Jeremiah …
19th Century
Anglican
With regard to the two pillars, Jachin (“He shall establish”) and Boaz (“In it is strength”), the text gives no account of their …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For he cast two pillars of brass, eighteen cubits high apiece In ([Reference 2 Chroni…
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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…
