And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.
The height of one chapiter was five cubits - (so 1 Kings 7:16). But 2 Kings 25:17 has "three cubits." Probably there were two parts in the chapiter; the one lower and plain, of two cubits, the other higher and curiously carved, of three cubits. The former is omitted in 2 Kings 25:17, as belonging to the shaft of the pillar; the latter alone is there mentioned. Here the whole chapiter of five cubits is referred to.