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1 Kings 7:20
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
and the pomegranates: 2 Kings 25:17, 2 Chronicles 3:16, 2 Chronicles 4:13, Jeremiah 52:22, Jeremiah 52:23
Cross-References
You covered it with the deepas if it were a garment;the water stood above the mountains.
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
You covered the earth with oceans; the water was above the mountains.
The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains.
You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.
You covered it with the deep sea as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains.
You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains.
Thou coueredst it with the deepe as with a garment: the waters woulde stand aboue the mountaines.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network,.... The supplement is needless, according to Dr. Lightfoot; the sense being only, that the chapiters were above the lily work, which wrought out as far as the belly of the chapiters, or the middle cubit of them, which the pomegranates filled up:
and the pomegranates were two hundred, in rows round about upon the other chapiter: there were so many in each, which in all made four hundred, as in 1 Kings 7:42. In Jeremiah 52:23, it is said there were ninety six on a side, and yet one hundred round about; the meaning of which is, either that there were twenty four to every wind, as the word there is, and four on the four angles, and so in all one hundred; or, as the above learned writer, when the pillars were set to the wall, only ninety six appeared in sight in a row, the other four being hid behind them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In this verse also a portion of the original text is supposed to have fallen out in consequence of the repetition of words. The full phrase of the original has been retained in 1 Kings 7:16-17. It may be restored thus: “And the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the one chapiter, and two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.” The “four hundred” 1 Kings 7:42; 2 Chronicles 4:13, are obtained by counting the pomegranates of both pillars together. In Jeremiah 52:23, is an account of the arrangement of a single row of pomegranates, whereof each pillar had two.
