Discovery Box1 Kings 6:23 
Context6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubs of olive wood; each stood 15 feet 1 high.
1 Kings 7:15
Context7:15 He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet 2 high and 18 feet 3 in circumference.
1 Kings 12:31
Context12:31 He built temples 4 on the high places and appointed as priests people who were not Levites.
1 tn Heb “ten cubits” (a cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm).
2 tn Heb “eighteen cubits.”
3 tn Heb “twelve cubits.”
4 tn The Hebrew text has the singular, but the plural is preferable here (see 1 Kgs 13:32). The Old Greek translation and the Vulgate have the plural.
