OLD TESTAMENT

2 Chronicles 4:12

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the two pillars, the bowls, the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,

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Verse 12. Pommels, (epistylia.) Hebrew “cordons,” or rows of pomegranates, (3 Kennicott. 7:18) each consisting of one hundred; so that at the two pillars were adorned with a double row, both together would have four hundred. Calmet.—The precise number is fixed at ninety-six for each row. Jeremiah 52:23. Tirinus.

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