KJV King James Version
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.
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2 Chronicles 3:15
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.
WEB World English Bible
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
ASV American Standard Version
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And he maketh at the front of the house two pillars, thirty and five cubits in length, and the ornament that is on their heads five cubits.
Surrounding context — 2 Chronicles 3
12 And [one] wing of the other cherub [was] five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing [was] five cubits [also], joining to the wing of the other cherub.
13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces [were] inward.
14 And he made the vail [of] blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.
16 And he made chains, [as] in the oracle, and put [them] on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put [them] on the chains.
17 And he reared up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
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וַיַּ֜עַשׂH6213 · a.sahto make: doלִפְנֵ֤יH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeהַבַּ֙יִת֙H1004 · betplaceעַמּוּדִ֣יםH5982 · am.mudpillarשְׁנַ֔יִםH8147 · she.na.yimtwoאַמּ֕וֹתH520 · am.mahcubitשְׁלֹשִׁ֥יםH7970 · she.lo.shimthirtyוְחָמֵ֖שׁH2568 · cha.meshfiveאֹ֑רֶךְH753 · o.rekhlengthוְהַצֶּ֥פֶתH6858 · tse.phetcapitalאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichעַל־H5921 · aluponרֹאשׁ֖וֹH7218 · roshheadאַמּ֥וֹתH520 · am.mahcubitחָמֵֽשׁ׃ סH2568 · cha.meshfive
Cross-references
Jeremiah 52:20-23The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that [were] under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.1 Kings 7:15-24For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.
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