2 Kings 25:17
New International Version
Each pillar was eighteen cubits high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.

New Living Translation
Each of the pillars was 27 feet tall. The bronze capital on top of each pillar was 7 1 / 2 feet high and was decorated with a network of bronze pomegranates all the way around.

English Standard Version
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.

Berean Standard Bible
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.

King James Bible
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.

New King James Version
The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital were all of bronze. The second pillar was the same, with a network.

New American Standard Bible
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, same features with latticework.

NASB 1995
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.

NASB 1977
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.

Legacy Standard Bible
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.

Amplified Bible
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits (27 ft.), and a capital of bronze was on top of it. The height of the capital was three cubits (4.5 ft.); a network (lattice work) and pomegranates around the capital were all of bronze. And the second pillar had the same as these, with a network.

Christian Standard Bible
One pillar was twenty-seven feet tall and had a bronze capital on top of it. The capital, encircled by a grating and pomegranates of bronze, stood five feet high. The second pillar was the same, with its own grating.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
One pillar was 27 feet tall and had a bronze capital on top of it. The capital, encircled by a grating and pomegranates of bronze, stood five feet high. The second pillar was the same, with its own grating.

American Standard Version
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with network.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Eighteen cubits was the height of one of the pillars, and the capital atop it of brass, and the height of the capital was three cubits, and carved ornaments and pomegranates on the capital in a circle and all of brass, and thus also on the other pillar and all of brass.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was of brass: and the height of the chapiter was three cubits: the border, and the pomegranates on the chapiter round about were all of brass: and so it was with the second pillar with its border.

Contemporary English Version
Each column had been eight meters tall with a bronze cap over one meter high. These caps were decorated with bronze designs--some of them like chains and others like pomegranates.

Douay-Rheims Bible
One pillar was eighteen cubits high, and the chapiter of brass which was upon it was three cubits high: and the network, and the pomegranates that were upon the chapiter of the pillar, were all of brass: and the second pillar had the like adorning.

English Revised Version
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a chapiter of brass was upon it: and the height of the chapiter was three cubits; with network and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with network.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
One pillar was 27 feet high and had a bronze capital on it that was 4 1/2 feet high. The filigree and the pomegranates around the capital were all made of bronze. The second pillar and its filigree were the same.

Good News Translation
The two columns were identical: each one was 27 feet high, with a bronze capital on top, 4� feet high. All around each capital was a bronze grillwork decorated with pomegranates made of bronze.

International Standard Version
The height of one of the pillars was eighteen cubits, and the capital on top of it was three cubits high. A latticework carved in the form of pomegranates encircled the capital, crafted completely out of brass. The second pillar was identical to the first.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the capital was three cubits; with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass; and like unto these had the second pillar with network.

Literal Standard Version
eighteen cubits [is] the height of the one pillar, and the capital on it [is] of bronze, and the height of the capital [is] three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates [are] on the capital all around—the whole [is] of bronze; and the second pillar has like these, with the net.

Majority Standard Bible
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.

New American Bible
Each of the columns was eighteen cubits high; a bronze capital three cubits high surmounted each column, and a netting with pomegranates encircled the capital, all of bronze; and they were duplicated on the other column, on the netting.

NET Bible
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.

New Revised Standard Version
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a bronze capital; the height of the capital was three cubits; latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were on the capital all around. The second pillar had the same, with the latticework.

New Heart English Bible
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of bronze was on it; and the height of the capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of bronze: and like to these had the second pillar with network.

Webster's Bible Translation
The hight of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital upon it was brass: and the hight of the capital three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the capital around, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with wreathen work.

World English Bible
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of bronze was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of bronze; and the second pillar with its network was like these.

Young's Literal Translation
eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and the chapiter on it is of brass, and the height of the chapiter is three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates are on the chapiter round about -- the whole is of brass; and like these hath the second pillar, with the net.

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Context
The Temple Destroyed
16As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure. 17Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar. 18The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.…

Cross References
1 Kings 7:15
He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.

Jeremiah 27:19
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the bases, and the rest of the articles that remain in this city,

Jeremiah 52:21
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

Jeremiah 52:22
The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.


Treasury of Scripture

The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was brass: and the height of the capital three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates on the capital round about, all of brass: and like to these had the second pillar with wreathen work.

one pillar.

1 Kings 7:15,16
For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about…

Jeremiah 52:21-23
And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow…

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2 Kings 25
1. Jerusalem is besieged.
4. Zedekiah taken, his sons slain, his eyes put out.
8. Nebuzaradan defaces the city, exiles the remnant, except a few poor laborers;
13. and carries away the treasures.
18. The nobles are slain at Riblah.
22. Gedaliah, who was over those who remained, being slain, the rest flee into Egypt.
27. Evil-Merodach advances Jehoiachin in his court.














(17) Three cubits.--An error of transcription for five. Five cubits was the height of the capital according to 1Kings 7:16; Jeremiah 52:22; 2Chronicles 3:15.

The wreathen work.--Lattice-work (1Kings 7:17).

With wreathen work.--Upon the lattice-work. Thenius says this is the residuum of a sentence preserved in Jeremiah--namely, "And the pomegranates were ninety and six towards the outside; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the lattice-work round about" (Jeremiah 52:23). Our text is, at any rate, much abridged. . . .

Verse 17. - The height of the one pillar wee eighteen cubits (comp. 1 Kings 7:15 and Jeremiah 52:21, in which latter place an even more elaborate account of the pillars is given), and the chapiter upon it was brass; rather, and there was a chapiter (or capital) upon it of brass - and the height of the chapiter three cubits. The measure given, both in 1 Kings 7:16 and Jeremiah 52:22, is "five cubits," which is generally regarded as correct; but the proportion of 3 to 18, or one-sixth, is far more suitable for a capital than that of 5 to 18, or between a third and a fourth. And the wreathen work - rather, and there was wreathen work, or network - and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass (comp. 1 Kings 7:18, 19): and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. The ornamentation of the second pillar was the same as that of the first (see Jeremiah 52:22).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Each
הָאֶחָ֗ד (hā·’e·ḥāḏ)
Article | Number - masculine singular
Strong's 259: United, one, first

pillar
הָעַמּ֣וּד (hā·‘am·mūḏ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5982: A column, a stand, platform

was eighteen
שְׁמֹנֶה֩ (šə·mō·neh)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 8083: A cardinal number, eight, eighth

cubits
אַמָּ֜ה (’am·māh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base

tall.
קוֹמַ֣ת ׀ (qō·w·maṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6967: Height

The bronze
נְחֹשֶׁת֮ (nə·ḥō·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base

capital
וְכֹתֶ֨רֶת (wə·ḵō·ṯe·reṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3805: The capital of a, column

atop [one pillar]
עָלָ֥יו ׀ (‘ā·lāw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

was three
שָׁלֹ֣שׁ (šā·lōš)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7969: Three, third, thrice

cubits
אַמּוֹת֒ (’am·mō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 520: A mother, a cubit, a door-base

high,
וְקוֹמַ֣ת (wə·qō·w·maṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6967: Height

with a network
וּשְׂבָכָ֨ה (ū·śə·ḇā·ḵāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7639: A net-work, a snare, a ballustrade, a reticulated ornament to a, pillar

of bronze
נְחֹ֑שֶׁת (nə·ḥō·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base

pomegranates
וְרִמֹּנִ֧ים (wə·rim·mō·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7416: A pomegranate, the tree, the fruit

all
הַכֹּ֣ל (hak·kōl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

around.
סָבִ֖יב (sā·ḇîḇ)
Adverb
Strong's 5439: A circle, neighbour, environs, around

The second
הַשֵּׁנִ֖י (haš·šê·nî)
Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's 8145: Second (an ordinal number)

pillar,
לַֽעַמּ֥וּד (la·‘am·mūḏ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5982: A column, a stand, platform

with its network,
הַשְּׂבָכָֽה׃ (haś·śə·ḇā·ḵāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7639: A net-work, a snare, a ballustrade, a reticulated ornament to a, pillar

was similar.
וְכָאֵ֛לֶּה (wə·ḵā·’êl·leh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's 428: These, those


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