{"id":10251,"date":"2022-09-24T03:27:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-kings-2517\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:27:57","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-kings-2517","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-kings-2517\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 25:17"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 17<\/strong>. <em> and the chapiter upon it<\/em> was <em> brass<\/em> ] R.V. <strong> and a chapiter of brass was upon it<\/strong>. The sentence is not meant to state of what material the chapiter was, but that it was there on the top of the pillar.<\/p>\n<p><em> wreathen work<\/em> ] R.V. <strong> network<\/strong>. Twice over the change is needed in this verse, to correspond with the rendering of A.V. in 1Ki 7:18 ; <span class='bible'>1Ki 7:20<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Ki 7:41-42<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\">Compare with this description the accounts in marginal references. The height of the capital (three cubits) must be corrected, in accordance with those passages, to five cubits.<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on 2Ki 25:13]<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(17) <strong>Three cubits.<\/strong>An error of transcription for <em>five.<\/em> Five cubits was the height of the capital according to <span class='bible'>1Ki. 7:16<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer. 52:22<\/span>; <span class='bible'>2Ch. 3:15<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The wreathen work.<\/strong><em>Lattice-work<\/em> (<span class='bible'>1Ki. 7:17<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>With wreathen work.<\/strong><em>Upon the lattice-work.<\/em> Thenius says this is the residuum of a sentence preserved in Jeremiahnamely, And the pomegranates were ninety and six towards the outside; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the lattice-work round about (<span class='bible'>Jer. 52:23<\/span>). Our text is, at any rate, much abridged.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 17<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> <strong> The height of the one pillar <\/strong> To justify or explain the last remark, the writer here mentions the size and great ornamentation of the pillars.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 2Ki 25:17 The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 17. <strong> The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits.<\/strong> ] The height evinceth the weight; <em> immensum erat pondus; <\/em> such as was that of the Turks&rsquo; great ordinance used against the Rhodes, drawn by thirty-eight yoke of oxen, and fitly called the basilisk. <em> a<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em> a<\/em> <em> Turk. Hist.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>The height of the one pillar. See note on 1Ki 7:15. <\/p>\n<p>wreathen work = network. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>one pillar: 1Ki 7:15, 1Ki 7:16, Jer 52:21-23 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Exo 28:14 &#8211; of wreathen Exo 28:33 &#8211; pomegranates 1Ki 7:17 &#8211; General 1Ki 7:18 &#8211; General 1Ki 7:20 &#8211; and the pomegranates Jer 27:19 &#8211; the pillars<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The height of the one pillar [was] eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it [was] brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. 17. and the chapiter upon it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-2-kings-2517\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Kings 25:17&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}