Discovery Box2 Kings 25:13 
Context25:13 The Babylonians broke the two bronze pillars in the Lord’s temple, as well as the movable stands and the big bronze basin called the “The Sea.” 1 They took the bronze to Babylon.
2 Kings 25:17
Context25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet 2 high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet 3 high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.
1 sn See the note at 1 Kgs 7:23.
2 tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.
3 tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”
