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Jeremiah 52:23

in Jeremiah 52

Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round about.

KJV

And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.

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This verse in Jeremiah 52

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
On a side - The 96 were toward the four winds, 24 toward the north, 24 toward the east, and so on. Add one at each corner, and the whole 100 is made up.

This site's exposition

the pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord

on Jeremiah 52:17-23

The temple's bronze work is stripped and shipped to Babylon piece by piece, the two great pillars 1 Kings 7:21 names Jachin and Boaz, the molten sea, and the twelve bulls that carried it, Solomon's own craftsmanship undone in the same measurements it was first recorded in. The pillar's exact dimensions are repeated here, eighteen cubits, network and pomegranates round about, the bench reading the precision as the appendix's own care to record exactly what was lost rather than only that it was lost. The listing reads as an inventory rather than a lament, brass, silver, and gold accounted for vessel by vessel before the chapter turns to the people themselves.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

15 ), that the extraordinary beauty and stateliness of them may affect us the more with the demolishing of them. All the vessels that belonged to the brazen altar were carried away; for the iniquity of Jerusalem, like that of Eli's house, was not to be purged by sacrifice or offering, 1 Sam. iii.

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And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

on a side--literally, (on the side) towards the air or wind, that is, the outside of the capitals of the pillars conspicuous to the eye, opposed to the four remaining pomegranates which were not seen from the outside. The pomegranates here are ninety-six; but in 1Ki 7:20 they are two hundred on each chapiter, and four hundred on the two (2Ch 4:13).

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The words behind it

11 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙and they were

    vaiyihyuH1961 →3559 times

  • הָֽרִמֹּנִ֔יםthe pomegranates

    harimonimH7416 →32 times

  • תִּשְׁעִ֥יםninety

    tishimH8673 →

  • וְשִׁשָּׁ֖הand six

    veshishahH8337 →216 times

  • ר֑וּחָה[the] side towards

    ruchahH7307 →378 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָרִמּוֹנִ֥יםthe pomegranates

    harimonimH7416 →32 times

  • מֵאָ֛ה[were] one hundred

    meahH3967 →581 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַשְּׂבָכָ֖הthe network

    hasevakhahH7639 →

  • סָבִֽיב׃all around

    savivH5439 →336 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Kings 7:20

    On the capitals of both pillars, just above the rounded projection next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows encircling each capital.

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 3:16

      He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.

    • 2 Chronicles 4:13

      the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars);

    • Jeremiah 52:22–23

      The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.

    • 2 Kings 25:17

      Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.

    • 1 Kings 7:42

      the four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network (two rows of pomegranates for each network covering both the bowl-shaped capitals atop the pillars);

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Prophet Jeremiah, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 52 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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