2 Chronicles 3:15

(d) THE TWO BRONZE PILLARS IN THE PORCH
(2 Chronicles 3:15). Comp. 1 Kings 7:15.

(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. 1 Kings 7:15 says “eighteen cubits,” so also 2 Kings 25:17; Jeremiah 52:21; and no doubt correctly. Of the versions, the LXX. and Vulg. have “thirty-five;” the Syriac and Arabic, “eighteen.”

The chapiter — i.e., the capital. French, chapitre. Literally, the ornament. 1 Kings 7:16 has “the crown; “so 2 Chronicles 4:12.