1st Kings Chapter 7 verse 22 Holy Bible
And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
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The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete.
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And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work; and the work of the pillars was finished.
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And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
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And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
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On the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
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and on the top of the pillars `is' lily-work; and the work of the pillars `is' completed.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - And upon the top of the pillars was lily work [a repetition, in the Hebrew manner, of ver. 19. The "lily work," which probably involved two things, (1) that the capital had a rude resemblance to a "full blown lily cup" (Bahr), and (2) that representations of the leaf of the lily ere pourtrayed upon it (as in the cornice of Hersepolis, an illustration of which will be found Dict. Bib. 3. p. 1457), was a not unfitting finial to the column, as it formed a sort of crown or chaplet upon it. The two pillars would thus resemble two giant plants, the column answering to the stalk, the capital to the flower. The ideas of architecture, it is well known, have very frequently been derived from the vegetable kingdom.
