Holier Than Thou - Biblical Contradictions

What was the height of each of the two pillars and their capitals in the house of the Lord?

1 Kings 7:15-16, "He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both. He also made two capitals of molten bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; the height of the one capital was five cubits and the height of the other capital was five cubits." (NASB)

2 Kings 25:17, "The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network." (NASB)

2 Chronicles 3:15, 17, "He also made two pillars for the front of the house, thirty-five cubits high, and the capital on the top of each was five cubits... He erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left, and named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz." (NASB)

Jeremiah 52:21-22, "As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow. Now a capital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates." (NASB)

The accounts in 1 Kings 7, 2 Kings 25, 2 Chronicles 3, and Jeremiah 52 are all similar in their description and measurements of the temple in Jerusalem, however, only two of them agree on the height of the two pillars as being 18 cubits and the capitals as being 5 cubits. 2 Kings chapter 25 records the capitals as 3 cubits and 2 Chronicles chapter 3 records the pillars at 35 cubits.

"Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth." (Ecclesiastes 7:3-4, KJV)

"Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 8:15, KJV)