The Two Pillars

15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, [1] and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

Other Translations of 2 Chronicles 3:15

New International Version

The Two Pillars

15 For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubitsThat is, about 53 feet or about 16 meters long, each with a capital five cubits high.

English Standard Version

The Two Pillars

15 In front of the house he made two pillars thirty-five cubits high, with a capital of five cubits on the top of each.

The Message

The Two Pillars

15 He made two huge free-standing pillars, each fifty-two feet tall, their capitals extending another seven and a half feet.

New King James Version

The Two Pillars

15 Also he made in front of the temple two pillars thirty-five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

New Living Translation

The Two Pillars

15 For the front of the Temple, he made two pillars that were 27 feet tall, each topped by a capital extending upward another 7 feet.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on 2 Chronicles 3:15

Chapter Contents

The building of the temple.

There is a more particular account of the building of the temple in 1 Kings 6. It must be in the place David had prepared, not only which he had purchased, but which he had fixed on by Divine direction. Full instructions enable us to go about our work with certainty and to proceed therein with comfort. Blessed be God, the Scriptures are enough to render the man of God thoroughly furnished for every good work. Let us search the Scriptures daily, beseeching the Lord to enable us to understand, believe, and obey his word, that our work and our way may be made plain, and that all may be begun, continued, and ended in him. Beholding God, in Christ, his true Temple, more glorious than that of Solomon's, may we become a spiritual house, a habitation of God through the Spirit.