1 Kings 7:15-16

7:15 He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet ¹  high and 18 feet ²  in circumference. 7:16 He made two bronze tops for the pillars; each was seven-and-a-half feet high. ³ 

Jeremiah 52:21-23

52:21 Each of the pillars was about 27 feet ⁴  high, about 18 feet ⁵  in circumference, three inches ⁶  thick, and hollow. 52:22 The bronze top of one pillar was about seven and one-half feet ⁷  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate-shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its pomegranate-shaped ornaments was like it. 52:23 There were ninety-six pomegranate-shaped ornaments on the sides; in all there were one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments over the latticework that went around it.

¹ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.”

² tn Heb “twelve cubits.”

³ tn Heb “two capitals he made to place on the tops of the pillars, cast in bronze; five cubits was the height of the first capital, and five cubits was the height of the second capital.”

⁴ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” A “cubit” was a unit of measure, approximately equivalent to a foot and a half.

⁵ tn Heb “twelve cubits.” A “cubit” was a unit of measure, approximately equivalent to a foot and a half.

⁶ tn Heb “four fingers.”

⁷ tn Heb “five cubits.” A “cubit” was a unit of measure, approximately equivalent to a foot and a half.