1 Kings 7:17
Good News Translation
The top of each column was decorated with a design of interwoven chains

New Revised Standard Version
There were nets of checker work with wreaths of chain work for the capitals on the tops of the pillars; seven for the one capital, and seven for the other capital.

Contemporary English Version
The caps were decorated with seven rows of designs that looked like chains,

New American Bible
There were meshes made like netting and braid made like chains for the capitals on top of the columns, seven for each capital.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with wonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows of nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.

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And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with wonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows of nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.

Exodus 28:14,22,24,25 And two little chains of the purest gold, linked one to another, which thou shalt put into the hooks. . . .

Exodus 39:15-18 They made also in the rational little chains, linked one to another, of the purest gold, . . .

2 Kings 25:17 One pillar was eighteen cubits high: and the chapiter of brass, which was upon it, was three cubits high: and the network, and the pomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all of brass: and the second pillar had the like adorning.

Context
The Work of Hiram
16He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits: 17And a kind of network, and chain work wreathed together with wonderful art. Both the chapiters of the pillars were cast: seven rows of nets were on one chapiter, and seven nets on the other chapiter.18And he made the pillars, and two rows round about each network to cover the chapiters, that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and in like manner did he to the other chapiter.…
Cross References
1 Kings 7:16
He made also two chapiters of molten brass, to be set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:

1 Kings 7:18
And he made the pillars, and two rows round about each network to cover the chapiters, that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and in like manner did he to the other chapiter.

1 Kings 7:41
The two pillars and the two cords of the chapiters, upon the chapiters of the pillars: and the two networks, to cover the two cords, that were upon the top of the pillars.

1 Kings 7:16
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