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

18 Then the captain of the bodyguards took (B)Seraiah the chief priest and (C)Zephaniah the second priest, with the three [c]doorkeepers. 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 captain 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 About 27 ft. or 8 m
  2. 2 Kings 25:17 About 4.5 ft. or 1.3 m
  3. 2 Kings 25:18 Lit keepers of the threshold
  4. 2 Kings 25:19 Lit men of those seeing the king’s face
  5. 2 Kings 25:19 Or scribe, a captain

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