Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 3:15

"Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits." — 2 Chronicles 3:15 (ASV)

(d) THE TWO BRONZE PILLARS IN THE PORCH (2 Chronicles 3:15–17). Compare to 1 Kings 7:15–22.

Before the house. —Before the holy place, in the porch.

Two pillars of thirty and five cubits high. — Two pillars thirty and five cubits in length. 1 Kings 7:15 says "eighteen cubits." This measurement is also given in 2 Kings 25:17 and Jeremiah 52:21, and is undoubtedly correct. Of the versions, the Septuagint and Vulgate have "thirty-five;" the Syriac and Arabic, "eighteen."

The chapiter — i.e., the capital. French, chapitre. Literally, the ornament. 1 Kings 7:16 has "the crown"; so 2 Chronicles 4:12.