Jeremiah 52:23
21 Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
22 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.
Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.
24 The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
25 Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
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- BSB
- Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.
- KJV
- And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon the network were an hundred round about.
- WEB
- There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.
- ASV
- And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round about.
- DARBY
- And there were ninety-six pomegranates on the [four] sides; all the pomegranates upon the network were a hundred round about.
- BLB
- The pomegranates were ninety-six on the side; all the pomegranates [were] a hundred on the lattice-work all around.
- ÅB
- Og granateplene var seks og nitti, som vendte utad; alle granateplene var hundre ved nettverket rundt omkring.
- OTB
- Det var nittiseks granatepler på sidene; i alt var det hundre granatepler over det omkringliggende gitterverket.
- B1930
- Og granateplene var seks og nitti, som vendte utad; alle granateplene var hundre ved nettverket rundt omkring.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
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