13And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.
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And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about: …
And four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-22)We have here such a summary both of the brass-work and the gold-work of the temple as we had before (1 Kgs. 7:13-51), in which we have nothing more to observe than, 1. That Huram the workman was very punctual: He finished all that he was to make (2 Chron. 4:11), and left no part of his work undone. Huram, his father , he is called, 2 Chron. 4:16. Probably it was a sort of nickname by which he was…
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