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cast. Hebrew fashioned.
two pillars = the two pillars: i.e. the two notable pillars, for ornament, not for support, and hollow (Jer_52:21).
eighteen cubits high apiece. So 2Ki_25:17 and Jer_52:21. But 2Ch_3:15 (margin) says thirty-five cubits long: i.e. together, the top of "each" being reckoned separately. Therefore the height here was 17 + cubit being taken up in the joining on of the capital.
apiece. This is the reckoning here. In 2Ch_3:15 they are reckoned together. See margin.