Text -- 2 Kings 25:17 (NET)

25:17 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.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 2Ki 25:17

¹ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

² tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”