2 Tawarikh 3:5

3:5 He paneled ¹  the main hall ²  with boards made from evergreen trees ³  and plated it with fine gold, decorated with palm trees and chains. ⁴ 

2 Tawarikh 3:15

3:15 In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length ⁵  of 52½ feet, ⁶  with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high. ⁷ 

2 Tawarikh 4:3

4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches ⁸  all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”

2 Tawarikh 4:12

4:12 He made ⁹  the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,

[3:5]  ¹ tn Heb “covered.”

[3:5]  ² tn Heb “the large house.”

[3:5]  ³ tn Heb “wood of evergreens.”

[3:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and he put up on it palm trees and chains.”

[3:15]  ⁵ sn The figure given here appears to refer to the combined length of both pillars (perhaps when laid end-to-end on the ground prior to being set up; cf. v. 17); the figure given for the height of the pillars in 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21 is half this (i.e., eighteen cubits).

[3:15]  ⁶ tc The Syriac reads “eighteen cubits” (twenty-seven feet). This apparently reflects an attempt at harmonization with 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21.

[3:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “and he made before the house two pillars, thirty-five cubits [in] length, and the plated capital which was on its top [was] five cubits.” The significance of the measure “thirty-five cubits” (52.5 feet or 15.75 m, assuming a cubit of 18 inches) for the “length” of the pillars is uncertain. According to 1 Kgs 7:15, each pillar was eighteen cubits (27 feet or 8.1 m) high. Perhaps the measurement given here was taken with the pillars lying end-to-end on the ground before they were set up.

[4:3]  ⁸ tn Heb “ten every cubit.”

[4:12]  ⁹ tn The words “he made” are added for stylistic reasons.