2nd Chronicles Chapter 3 verse 15 Holy Bible
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
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And in front of the house he made two pillars, thirty-five cubits high, with crowns on the tops of them, five cubits high.
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And before the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits long; and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
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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.
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Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
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Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
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And he maketh at the front of the house two pillars, thirty and five cubits in length, and the ornament that `is' on their heads five cubits.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - Thirty and five cubits. The height of these pillars is attested in three places to have been 18 cubits (1 Kings 7:15; 2 Kings 25:17; Jeremiah 52:21). Some therefore think that the height given in our text describes rather the distance of the one pillar from the other, which would be just 35 cubits, if they stood at the extreme points of the line of the porch front; since the wings on each side (5 cubits for the lowest chamber, and 2.5 cubits for the thickness of the walls) would make up this amount. It is further noticed with this explanation that their height (18 cubits) with the chapiters (5 cubits) added, would bring them to the same height as the porch, and that their ornamentation agrees with that of the porch (1 Kings 7:19). All this may be the case. Yet considering other indications of uncertainty about our text, and the fact that the characters yod kheth (18) are easily superseded by lamed he (35), it is perhaps likelier that we have here simply a clerical error. The parallel place tells us that these pillars and the chapiters were cast of brass; that "a line [1 Kings 7:15; Jeremiah 52:41] of twelve cubits [not seven] did compass either of them about;" that the ornamentation of each chapiter was "a net of checker-work, and a wreath of chain-work;" that upon the five cubits of chapiter there was another "four cubits of lily-work," etc. If this last feature apply to the two pillars, and not (as some think) to the porch only, the pillars would reach a height of 27 cubits, and if it be supposed that they stood on some stone or other superstructure, it may still be that our "thirty-five cubits" has its meaning. Meantime the passage in Jeremiah (Jeremiah 52:41) tells us that the pillars were hollow, and that the thickness of the metal was "four fingers."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(d) THE TWO BRONZE PILLARS IN THE PORCH(2Chronicles 3:15-17). Comp. 1Kings 7:15-22.(15) Before the house.--Before the holy place, in the porch.Two pillars of thirty and five cubits high.--Two pillars thirty and five cubits in length. 1Kings 7:15 says "eighteen cubits," so also 2Kings 25:17; Jeremiah 52:21; and no doubt correctly. Of the versions, the LXX. and Vulg. have "thirty-five;" the Syriac and Arabic, "eighteen." . . .
