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2 Chronicles 3:15

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3:15In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length22 of 52½ feet,23 with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high.24

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  1. 22 The figure given here appears to refer to the combined length of both pillars (perhaps when laid end-to-end on the ground prior to being set up; cf. v. 17); the figure given for the height of the pillars in 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21 is half this (i.e., eighteen cubits).
  2. 23 The reads “eighteen cubits” (twenty-seven feet). This apparently reflects an attempt at harmonization with 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21.
  3. 24 Heb “and he made before the house two pillars, thirty-five cubits [in] length, and the plated capital which was on its top [was] five cubits.” The significance of the measure “thirty-five cubits” (52.5 feet or 15.75 m, assuming a cubit of 18 inches) for the “length” of the pillars is uncertain. According to 1 Kgs 7:15, each pillar was eighteen cubits (27 feet or 8.1 m) high. Perhaps the measurement given here was taken with the pillars lying end-to-end on the ground before they were set up.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits long, each with a capital five cubits high.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

In front of the temple he made two pillars, each 27 feet high. The capital on top of each was 7½ feet high.

NLTNew Living Translation

For the front of the Temple, he made two pillars that were 27 feet tall, each topped by a capital extending upward another 7½ feet.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And at the front of the house he made two columns, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on their top was five cubits.

KJV 1900King James Version

Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.