2 Kings 25:17
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.
The verse describes the two bronze pillars of the temple, the one pillar standing eighteen cubits high with a brass capital three cubits high, decorated round about with wreathwork and pomegranates, all of brass, and the second pillar with its wreathwork made like the first. Those pillars and their decorated capitals were part of the temple furnishings and treasures despoiled, plundered and carried away when Jerusalem fell to Babylon and the temple was burned after the people's unfaithfulness. Their removal formed part of the destruction and plunder of Jerusalem that completed Judah's captivity.
The verse belongs to the closing history of the kingdom of Judah describing the fall and laying waste of Jerusalem by Babylon, when the kingdom was subverted. The chapter in which it stands is a concluding chapter added to the words of Jeremiah, describing the fall of Jerusalem. It stands in the fuller telling of Zedekiah's downfall in 2 Kings 24 and 25, for Zedekiah was the last king of the chosen people and of Judah, captured, blinded by Nebuchadnezzar, taken to Babylon and dying in captivity.
The same context includes the despoiling of the temple, the slaying of the captives at Riblah, the capture of Zedekiah the last king, the appointment of Gedaliah as governor and his slaying through treachery, the going of the remnant to Egypt contrary to the counsel of Jeremiah, and the kind treatment shown to Jehoiachin by the king of Babylon. Their removal formed part of the destruction that completed Judah's captivity, when the people were taken captive and scattered. Afterward Judah had no independent government except as a province subservient to the great kingdoms that ruled the world.
It belongs to the Babylonian captivity that closes the history of the great empires mentioned in the Bible from the confusion of tongues, and shows God's overruling hand in the history of nations. The captivity and final destruction of Jerusalem in 2 Kings 25:1-21, with the prophecies relating to it, is typical of events to transpire either under the gospel or at the close of this dispensation, having a primary and typical fulfillment among the Jews and an emphatic fulfillment in this age. There is a sudden transition from type to antitype requiring care not to apply to the type what applies to the antitype, for God molded portrayals of His ancient people to also represent gospel events so ancient hearers could look beyond their own dispensation and those in the Christian dispensation have a special interest in what emphatically applies to them.