The fillet means a measuring line; the pillars were 12 cubits, that is, 18 feet, in circumference, and thus the diameter would be 5 feet 9 inches. …

And concerning the pillars ... —In 2 Kings 25:16–17, we have a list abbreviated by the omission of some of the measure…

Laus Deo

Commentary on Lamentations

Calvin's Preface

LECTURES OF JOHN CALVIN

ON

THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH

And [concerning] the pillars, the height of one pillar [was]
eighteen cubits
As in ([R…

The Chaldean army made woeful havoc. But nothing is related here as particularly as the carrying away of the articles in the temple. The remembranc…