Jeremiah 52:21-23
Context52:21 Each of the pillars was about 27 feet 1 high, about 18 feet 2 in circumference, three inches 3 thick, and hollow. 52:22 The bronze top of one pillar was about seven and one-half feet 4 high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate-shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its pomegranate-shaped ornaments was like it. 52:23 There were ninety-six pomegranate-shaped ornaments on the sides; in all there were one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments over the latticework that went around it.
1 tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” A “cubit” was a unit of measure, approximately equivalent to a foot and a half.
2 tn Heb “twelve cubits.” A “cubit” was a unit of measure, approximately equivalent to a foot and a half.
3 tn Heb “four fingers.”
4 tn Heb “five cubits.” A “cubit” was a unit of measure, approximately equivalent to a foot and a half.