1 Kings 7:22
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New International Version (©2011)
The capitals on top were in the shape of lilies. And so the work on the pillars was completed.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The capitals on the pillars were shaped like water lilies. And so the work on the pillars was finished.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And on the tops of the pillars was lily-work. Thus the work of the pillars was finished.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work of the pillars was finished.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. Then the work of the pillars was completed.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The work on the pillars was finished with a lily design on top of the pillars.

NET Bible (©2006)
The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the construction of the pillars was completed.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
There were lily-shaped capitals at the top of the pillars. He finished the work on the pillars.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

American King James Version
And on the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

American Standard Version
And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.

Darby Bible Translation
And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work; and the work of the pillars was finished.

English Revised Version
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

Webster's Bible Translation
And upon the top of the pillars was lily-work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

World English Bible
On the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

Young's Literal Translation
and on the top of the pillars is lily-work; and the work of the pillars is completed.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:13-47 The two brazen pillars in the porch of the temple, some think, were to teach those that came to worship, to depend upon God only, for strength and establishment in all their religious exercises. Jachin, God will fix this roving mind. It is good that the heart be established with grace. Boaz, In him is our strength, who works in us both to will and to do. Spiritual strength and stability are found at the door of God's temple, where we must wait for the gifts of grace, in use of the means of grace. Spiritual priests and spiritual sacrifices must be washed in the laver of Christ's blood, and of regeneration. We must wash often, for we daily contract pollution. There are full means provided for our cleansing; so that if we have our lot for ever among the unclean it will be our own fault. Let us bless God for the fountain opened by the sacrifice of Christ for sin and for uncleanness.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And upon the top of the pillars was lily work,.... Which seems to be repeated from 1 Kings 7:19 and confirms that:

and so was the work of the pillars finished; in the manner described.

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The Work of Hiram
…20And the capitals on 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 on the other capital. 21And 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. 22And on the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

1 Kings 7:19 The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubits high.
1 Kings 7:21 He erected the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz.
1 Kings 7:23 He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it.