2 Chronicles 3:16

He made also as it were little chains in the oracle, and he put them on the heads of the pillars: and a hundred pomegranates, which he put between the little chains.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

In Context

15He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.

17These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left: that which was on the right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Boot.

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Cross References

1 Kings 6:21And the house before the oracle he overlaid with most pure gold, and fastened on the plates with nails of gold.

2 Chronicles 4:12That is to say, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters, and the network, to cover the chapiters over the pommels.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 3:11-17

The Furniture of the Temple. ( b. c. 1012.) 10 And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold. 11 And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing of the one cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub. 12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of… Read the whole commentary →

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