17, 18. nets of checker work —that is, branch-work, resembling the branches of palm trees, and wreaths of chain-work —that is, plaited in the form of a chain, composing a sort of crown or garland. Seven of these were wound in festoons on one capital, and over and underneath them were fringes, one hundred in a row. Two rows of pomegranates strung on chains ( :- ) ran round the capital ( :- ; compare 2 Chronicles 4:12 ; 2 Chronicles 4:13 ; Jeremiah 52:23 ), which, itself, was of a bowl-like or globular form ( Jeremiah 52:23- : ). These rows were designed to form a binding to the ornamental work—to keep it from falling asunder; and they were so placed as to be above the chain work, and below the place where the branch-work was. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-19" class="com-number"
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