Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 7:16
And he made two chapiters [of] molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter [was] five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter [was] five cubits:
The general character of the chapiters or capitals, their great size in proportion to the shaft, which is as one to two, and their construction of two quite different members, remind us of the pillars used by the Persians in their palaces, which were certainly more like Jachin and Boaz than any pillars that have reached us from antiquity. The ornamentation, however, seems to have been far more elaborate than that of the Persian capitals.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
The height of the one chapiter was five cubits.
Object. It is but three cubits in 2Ki 25:17.
Answ. The word chapiter is taken diversely, as hundreds of other words are; either more largely for the whole, so it is five cubits; or more strictly, either for the pommels, as they are called, 2Ch 4:12, or for the cornice or crown; and so it was but three cubits, to which the pomegranates being added make it four cubits, as it is below, 1Ki 7:19; and the other work upon it took up one cubit more, which in all made five cubits.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars,…. These were large ovals in the form of a crown, as the word signifies; or like two crowns joined together, as Ben Gersom; or bowls, as they are called, 1Ki 7:41,
the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits; in 2Ki 25:17 they are said to be but three cubits high; but that is to be understood only of the ornamented part of them, the wreathen work and pomegranates on them, as there expressed; here it includes, with that, the part below unornamented.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
16. Two chapiters Or capitals.
Molten brass Brass melted, so as to be cast into the forms desired. The brass, of which these pillars, the brazen sea, and other vessels were made, had been captured by David from the cities of Hadarezer. 1Ch 18:8.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
1Ki 7:16 And he made two chapiters [of] molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter [was] five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter [was] five cubits:
Ver. 16. To set upon the tops of the pillars. ] Hence they were called chapiters, or heads, coronamenta, epistylia; crowns they are called. Jer 52:22
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
chapiters. Old French chapiteau, from Latin. capitu-lum = capitals, or crowns.
five cubits. So 2Ch 3:15. But 2Ki 25:17 says three cubits, not including the “wreathen” or lattice work, which is described separately, and must have been two cubits.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Exo 36:38, Exo 38:17, Exo 38:19, Exo 38:28, 2Ch 4:12, 2Ch 4:13
Reciprocal: 2Ki 25:17 – one pillar Isa 8:6 – refuseth Joh 6:13 – and filled