For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
Ver. 15. Of eighteen cubits high apiece.] Thirty-five cubits high, saith another prophet, 2Ch 3:15 that is, saith Pellican, both of them together were thirty-five cubits high, and each one almost eighteen, for which it is said to be eighteen cubits; the Scripture useth not to express such broken measures.