2Ki 25:17 | NETfull | STEP | Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

2 Kings 25:17

17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ^{▼▼ Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.} high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ^{▼▼ Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”} high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.