cast] Heb. foshioned. See Jeremiah 52:21. two pillars of brasse] Jeremiah 52:21, &c. eighteen cubits] Betwixt the foot whereon it stood, and the chapiter on the head of it; for from the ground to the top of the chapiter, it was thirty and five cubits high, 2 Chronicles 3:15. Besides, the eighteen cubits here mentioned were sacred, but the thirty and five were common, and shorter by a third part, as is noted v. 2. Or else here the height of one single pillar may be set down, but in 2 Chronicles 3:15. the length of them both.