translation_id: net-engnet

label: NET study note

text: This would be April-May, 966 b.c. by modern reckoning.


text: 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).