2 Kings 25:17
Compare with this description the accounts in marginal references. The height of the capital ("three cubits" ) must be corrected, in accordance with those passages, to "five cubits."
15 The firepans and the basins, the things of solid gold and solid silver, the captain of the guard took away.
16 The two pillars, one Sea, and the carts, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord, athe bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.
17 aThe height of one pillar was1 eighteen cubits, and the capital on it was of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits, and the network and pomegranates all around the capital were all of bronze. The second pillar was the same, with a network.
18 aAnd the captain of the guard took bSeraiah the chief priest, cZephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.
19 He also took out of the city an officer who had charge of the men of war, afive men of the king’s close associates who were found in the city, the chief recruiting officer of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.
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Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 2 Kings 25:17:
2 Kings 24:13
Psalms 44:10
Daniel 1:2
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