2 Kings 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ¹  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ²  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

2 Kings 25:16

25:16 The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord’s temple – including the two pillars, the big bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” ³  and the movable stands – was too heavy to be weighed.

2 Kings 11:14

11:14 Then she saw ⁴  the king standing by the pillar, according to custom. The officers stood beside the king with their trumpets and all the people of the land were celebrating and blowing trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and screamed, “Treason, treason!” ⁵ 

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.” ⁶  They took the bronze to Babylon.

2 Kings 23:3

23:3 The king stood by the pillar and renewed ⁷  the covenant before the Lord, agreeing to follow ⁸  the Lord and to obey his commandments, laws, and rules with all his heart and being, ⁹  by carrying out the terms ¹⁰  of this covenant recorded on this scroll. All the people agreed to keep the covenant. ¹¹ 

[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.

[25:17]  ² tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”

[25:16]  ³ tc The MT lacks “the twelve bronze bulls under ‘the Sea,’” but these words have probably been accidentally omitted by homoioarcton. The scribe’s eye may have jumped from the וְהָ (vÿha-) on וְהַבָּקָר (vÿhabbaqar), “and the bulls,” to the וְהָ on וְהַמְּכֹנוֹת (vÿhammÿkhonot), “and the movable stands,” causing him to leave out the intervening words. See the parallel passage in Jer 52:20.

[11:14]  ⁵ tn Heb “and she saw, and look.”

[11:14]  ⁶ tn Or “conspiracy, conspiracy.”

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

[23:3]  ⁹ tn Heb “cut,” that is, “made, agreed to.”

[23:3]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “walk after.”

[23:3]  ¹¹ tn Or “soul.”

[23:3]  ¹² tn Heb “words.”

[23:3]  ¹³ tn Heb “stood in the covenant.”