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17 (A)The height of the one pillar was eighteen [a]cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three [b]cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.

18 Then the captain of the guard took (B)Seraiah the chief priest and (C)Zephaniah the second priest, with the three [c]doorkeepers of the temple. 19 And from the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and (D)five [d]of the king’s advisers who were found in the city; and the [e]scribe of the commander 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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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:17 A cubit was approx. 18 in. or 45 cm
  2. 2 Kings 25:17 A cubit was approx. 18 in. or 45 cm
  3. 2 Kings 25:18 Lit keepers of the door
  4. 2 Kings 25:19 Lit men of those seeing the king’s face
  5. 2 Kings 25:19 Or scribe, a captain