^17 (A)The height of the one pillar was ^[a]eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was ^[b]three cubits, with latticework and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, same features with latticework.

¹⁸ Then the captain of the bodyguards took ^(B)Seraiah the chief priest and ^(C)Zephaniah the second priest, with the three ^[c]doorkeepers. ¹⁹ And from the city he took one official who was overseer of the men of war, and ^(D)five ^[d]of the king’s advisers who were found in the city; and the ^[e]scribe of the captain of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.