2 Kings 25:13

25:13 The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord’s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the “The Sea.” ¹  They took the bronze to Babylon.

2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ²  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ³  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

[25:13]  ¹ sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.

[25:17]  ² tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[25:17]  ³ tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”