◄ 2 Chronicles 3:16 ►
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Good News Translation
The tops of the columns were decorated with a design of interwoven chains and one hundred bronze pomegranates.

New Revised Standard Version
He made encircling chains and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made one hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

Contemporary English Version
The top of each column was decorated with designs that looked like chains and with 100 carvings of pomegranates.

New American Bible
He devised chains in the form of a collar with which he encircled the capitals of the columns, and he made a hundred pomegranates which he set on the chains.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

chains

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

an hundred

1 Kings 7:20 And again there were other chapiters on the top of the pillars above, according to the measure of the pillar over against the network: and of pomegranates there were two hundred, in rows round about the other chapiter.

Context
The Veil and Pillars
…15He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits. 16He 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.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, Booz.…
Cross References
1 Kings 7:20
And again there were other chapiters on the top of the pillars above, according to the measure of the pillar over against the network: and of pomegranates there were two hundred, in rows round about the other chapiter.

2 Chronicles 3:15
He made also before the doors of the temple two pillars, which were five and thirty cubits high: and their chapiters were five cubits.

2 Chronicles 3:17
These 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, Booz.

2 Chronicles 3:15
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