John Gill's Exposition on 1 Kings 7:19

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, etc.] Or such as was in the porch of the temple; the work was like that wrought in the form of the flower of lilies open: four cubits; of the five cubits of which the chapiters consisted, four of them were of lily work, the two rows of pomegranates taking up the other; though Dr. Lightfoot f114 thinks, that at the head of the pillar was a border or circle of lily work, that stood out four cubits under the chapiter, into and along the porch; a four cubit circle, after the manner of a spread lily.

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