'Pillars' in the Bible

Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

Then Moses put down in writing all the words of the Lord, and he got up early in the morning and made an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.

And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass

Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver.

And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver.

And for the open space on the west side, the hangings are to be fifty cubits wide, with ten pillars and ten bases;

On the one side of the doorway will be hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases;

And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.

And across the doorway, a veil of twenty cubits of the best linen, made of needlework of blue and purple and red, with four pillars and four bases.

All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.

But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;

The hangings for the open space, its pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway;

And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.

And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.

Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.

And for the north side. hangings a hundred cubits long, on twenty brass pillars in brass bases, with silver hooks and bands.

And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands.

The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases;

And the same on the other side of the doorway; on this side and on that the hangings were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases.

And the bases of the pillars were of brass; their hooks and the bands round the tops of them were of silver; all the pillars were ringed with silver.

There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.

Of this silver, a hundred talents was used for making the bases of the pillars of the holy place and of the veil; a talent for every base.

And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands.

Then they took the House to Moses, the tent with all the things for it; its hooks, its boards, its rods, its pillars, and its bases;

The hangings for the open space, with the pillars and their bases, and the curtain for the doorway, and the cords and nails, and all the instruments necessary for the work of the House of the Tent of meeting;

Moses put up the House; placing its bases in position and lifting up its uprights, putting in the rods and planting the pillars in their places;

And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for,

And the pillars of the open space round it, with their bases and nails and cords.

And this is their part in the work of the Tent of meeting: the transport of the boards and the rods of the Tent, with the pillars and their bases;

And the pillars of the open space outside it, with their bases and their nails and cords and all the instruments used, and everything which has to be done there; all the instruments for which they are responsible are to be numbered by name.

Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

Writing them on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns:

Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.

Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.

And Samson said to the boy who took him by the hand, Let me put my hand on the pillars supporting the house, so that I may put my back against them.

Then Samson put his arms round the two middle pillars supporting the house, putting his weight on them, on one with his right hand and on the other with his left.

So after they had taken food and wine in the guest room, Hannah got up. Now Eli the priest was seated by the pillars of the doorway of the Temple of the Lord.

Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

Then he made pillars of olive-wood for the way into the Temple; the pillars were square:

And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

He it was who made the two brass pillars; the first pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a line of twelve cubits went round it; and the second was the same.

And he made the two crowns to be put on the tops of the pillars, of brass made soft in the fire; the crowns were five cubits high.

There were nets of open-work for the crowns on the tops of the pillars, a net of open-work for one and a net of open-work for the other.

And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way.

The crowns on the tops of the pillars were ornamented with a design of flowers, and were four cubits across.

And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown.

He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.

The tops of the pillars had a design of flowers; and the work of making the pillars was complete.

The two pillars and the two cups of the crowns which were on the tops of the two pillars; and the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the tops of the pillars,

And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for every network, covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars;

And from the sandal-wood the king made pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody: never has such sandal-wood been seen to this day.

For they made high places and upright stones and wood pillars on every high hill and under every green tree;

They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:

He had the high places taken away, and the stone pillars broken to bits, and the Asherah cut down; and the brass snake which Moses had made was crushed to powder at his order, because in those days the children of Israel had offerings burned before it, and he gave it the name Nehushtan.

And at that time Hezekiah had the gold from the doors of the Lord's house, and from the door-pillars plated by him, cut off and gave it to the king of Assyria.

The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead

And the brass pillars in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases, and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took the brass to Babylon.

The two pillars, the great water-vessel and the wheeled bases, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

One of the pillars was eighteen cubits high, with a crown of brass on it; the crown was three cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.

And from Tibhath and from Cun, towns of Hadadezer, David took a great store of brass, of which Solomon made the great brass water-vessel and the brass pillars and vessels.

And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.

And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.

He put up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right side and one on the left, naming the one on the right Jachin and that on the left Boaz.

The two pillars, and the two crowns on the tops of the pillars, and the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the tops of the pillars;

And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars.

For he took away the altars of strange gods and the high places, and had the upright stones broken and the wood pillars cut down;

His heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord; and he went so far as to take away the high places and the wood pillars out of Judah.

But still there is some good in you, for you have put away the wood pillars out of the land, and have given your heart to the worship of God.

And they gave up the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and became worshippers of pillars of wood and of the images; and because of this sin of theirs, wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem.

Now when all this was over, all the men of Israel who were present went out into the towns of Judah, causing the stone pillars to be broken up and the wood pillars to be cut down, pulling down the high places and the altars in all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, till all were gone. Then all the children of Israel went back to their towns, every man to his property.

For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;

And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.

In the eighth year of his rule, while he was still young, his heart was first turned to the God of his father David; and in the twelfth year he undertook the clearing away of all the high places and the pillars and the images of wood and metal from Judah and Jerusalem.

He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.

He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.

There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.

Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone,

When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)

Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.

Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.

His legs are as pillars of stone on a base of delicate gold; his looks are as Lebanon, beautiful as the cedar-tree.

And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.

He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.

So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.

And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.

Put up guiding pillars, make road signs for yourself: give attention to the highway, even the way in which you went: be turned again, O virgin of Israel, be turned to these your towns.

And the stone pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt will be broken by him, and the houses of the gods of Egypt burned with fire.

And the brass pillars which were in the house of the Lord, and the wheeled bases and the great brass water-vessel in the house of the Lord, were broken up by the Chaldaeans, who took all the brass away to Babylon.