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How high was the chapiter?
The corresponding descriptions give different heights for the decorated bronze capital atop the pillar.
- Textual conflict
- Direct contradiction
- The quoted passages make incompatible claims about the same subject under the same conditions. Little additional inference is needed.
- Importance
- Incidental
- A small detail with little effect on the wider account.
The same bronze pillar capital is measured as five cubits and three cubits without distinguishing portions or alterations.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
The bronze pillar capital is five cubits high
And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.
Jeremiah 52:22
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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The bronze pillar capital is three cubits high
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work.
2 Kings 25:17
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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