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The height of the one chapiter was five cubits.
Object. It is but three cubits in 2Ki_25:17.
Answ. The word chapiter is taken diversely, as hundreds of other words are; either more largely for the whole, so it is five cubits; or more strictly, either for the pommels, as they are called, 2Ch_4:12, or for the cornice or crown; and so it was but three cubits, to which the pomegranates being added make it four cubits, as it is below, 1Ki_7:19; and the other work upon it took up one cubit more, which in all made five cubits.