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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
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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…
Albert Barnes
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