KJV King James Version
And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
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1 Kings 7:22
And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.
WEB World English Bible
On the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
ASV American Standard Version
And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and on the top of the pillars is lily-work; and the work of the pillars is completed.
Surrounding context — 1 Kings 7
19 And the chapiters that [were] upon the top of the pillars [were] of lily work in the porch, four cubits.
20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars [had pomegranates] also above, over against the belly which [was] by the network: and the pomegranates [were] two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
21 And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.
22 And upon the top of the pillars [was] lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
23 And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: [it was] round all about, and his height [was] five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
24 And under the brim of it round about [there were] knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops [were] cast in two rows, when it was cast.
25 It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea [was set] above upon them, and all their hinder parts [were] inward.
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