1 Raja-raja 7:17

7:17 The latticework on the tops of the pillars was adorned with ornamental wreaths and chains; the top of each pillar had seven groupings of ornaments. ¹ 

1 Raja-raja 8:27

8:27 “God does not really live on the earth! ²  Look, if the sky and the highest heaven cannot contain you, how much less this temple I have built!

[7:17]  ¹ tn Heb “there were seven for the first capital, and seven for the second capital.”

[8:27]  ² tn Heb “Indeed, can God really live on the earth?” The rhetorical question expects the answer, “Of course not,” the force of which the translation above seeks to reflect.