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How high were the pillars of brass?

Biblical Passages

1 Kings 7:15
For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about.

2 Chronicles 3:15
Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

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They were either 18 cubits or 35 cubits. Which one?
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Book1 ChroniclesBook1 KingsTypeContradiction