2 Kings 25:17 - Exposition

The height of the one pillar wee eighteen cubits , and the chapiter upon it was brass; rather, and there was a chapiter (or capital ) upon it of brass— and the height of the chapiter three cubits. The measure given, both in 1 Kings 7:16 and Jeremiah 52:22 , is " five cubits," which is generally regarded as correct; but the proportion of 3 to 18, or one-sixth, is far more suitable for a capital than that of 5 to 18, or between a third and a fourth. And the wreathen work —rather, and there was wreathen work , or network— and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass : and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. The ornamentation of the second pillar was the same as that of the first (see Jeremiah 52:22 ).