Scripture · Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3:15
2 Chronicles 3:15 is verse 15 of 2 Chronicles chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
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.
35 cubits is approximately 52.5 feet or 16 meters.
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.
World English Bible
Also he made before the house two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
Read in context
2 Chronicles 3:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.
14 He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
15 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.
16 He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.
17 Then he set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south and one on the north. The pillar on the south he named Jachin, and the pillar on the north he named Boaz.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 3Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study 2 Chronicles 3:15
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 7:15He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
1 Kings 7:16He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
1 Kings 7:17For the capitals on top of the pillars he made a network of lattice, with wreaths of chainwork, seven for each capital.
1 Kings 7:18Likewise, he made the pillars with two rows of pomegranates around each grating to cover each capital atop the pillars.
1 Kings 7:19And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
1 Kings 7:20On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.
1 Kings 7:21Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.
1 Kings 7:22And the tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the work of the pillars was completed.
1 Kings 7:23He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
1 Kings 7:24Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
Jeremiah 52:20As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
Jeremiah 52:21Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
Jeremiah 52:22The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.
Jeremiah 52:23Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.