He cast two pillars of brass; of which see 2 Kings 25:16,17 Jer 52:21. Of eighteen cubits high apiece. Object. They are said to be thirty-five cubits high, 2 Chronicles 3:15. Answ. That place manifestly speaks of both the pillars; and this of each, or one pillar, as it is in the Hebrew. Object. But then it should have been thirty-six cubits. Answ. Either the odd half cubit is swallowed up either in the top of the chapiter, or in the bottom of the basis of each pillar; or it is neglected in the account, as commonly small measures or numbers are. Line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about; so the diameter was four cubits, which, considering the chapiter of five cubits added to the height of each pillar, 2 Chronicles 3:14, was not unproportionable to the height.
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1 Kings 7:15
15 For he castg two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.