2 Raja-raja 7:9

7:9 Then they said to one another, “It’s not right what we’re doing! This is a day to celebrate, but we haven’t told anyone. ¹  If we wait until dawn, ²  we’ll be punished. ³  So come on, let’s go and inform the royal palace.”

2 Raja-raja 25:17

25:17 Each of the pillars was about twenty-seven feet ⁴  high. The bronze top of one pillar was about four and a half feet ⁵  high and had bronze latticework and pomegranate shaped ornaments all around it. The second pillar with its latticework was like it.

[7:9]  ¹ tn Heb “this day is a day of good news and we are keeping silent.”

[7:9]  ² tn Heb “the light of the morning.”

[7:9]  ³ tn Heb “punishment will find us.”

[25:17]  ⁴ tn Heb “eighteen cubits.” The standard cubit in the OT is assumed by most authorities to be about eighteen inches (45 cm) long.

[25:17]  ⁵ tn Heb “three cubits.” The parallel passage in Jer 52:22 has “five.”