Compare this description with the accounts in the marginal references. The height of the capital (“three cubits”) must be corrected to “five cubits…

Three cubits. — An error of transcription for five. Five cubits was the height of the capital according to [Reference 1 K…

(See Gill on 2 Kings 25:13)

The city and temple were burned, and, it is probable, the ark was in it. By this, God showed how little He cares for the outward pomp of His worshi…