Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 7:15

15 For he cast two pillars of brass , of eighteen cubits high a piece : and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about .

Of which see 2 King. 25. 16, 17. Ier. 52. 21.

Obj. They are said to be 35 Cubits high, 2 Chron. 3. 15. Ans. That place manifestly speaks of both the Pillars; and this of each, or one pillar, as it is in the Hebrew. Obj. But then it should have been 36 Cubits. Ans. Either the odd half Cubit is swallowed up either in the top of the Chapter, or in the bottom of the Basis of each Pillar; or, it is neglected in the account, as commonly small measures or numbers are.

So the Diameter was four Cubits, which, considering the chapiter of five cubits added to the height of each Pillar, 2 Chron. 3. 14. was not unproportionable to the height.

Marginal references: Heb. fashioned.; 2 Chr. 4. 12.