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17 The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits,[a] and a bronze capital was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits.[b] Latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were on the capital all around. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

18 The captain of the bodyguard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold. 19 From the city he took a eunuch who was an officer over the fighting men, five men of the king’s council who were found in the city, the chief scribe of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men from the people of the land who were found in the city.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 25:17 About 27 feet, or 8.1 meters.
  2. 2 Kings 25:17 About 4½ feet, or 1.4 meters.