Jeremiah 52:23

23 nonaginta sex dependentia omnia mala granata centum retiaculis circumdabantur

Jeremiah 52:23 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 52:23

And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side
Or, "to the wind" ^F5; to the four winds; towards every corner or wind twenty four, which make up ninety six: [and] all the pomegranates upon the network [were] an hundred round
about;
four, standing upon the four angles, made the ninety six a hundred; in ( 1 Kings 7:20 ) ; they are said to be two hundred; and in ( 2 Chronicles 4:13 ) ; are said to be four hundred upon the two wreaths; which may be accounted for thus, there were two rows of them on each pillar, in every row were a hundred, which made two hundred in one pillar, and four hundred in both. These were the things in the temple carried away in the last captivity.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (hxwr) "ad ventum", Montanus; "ad omnem ventum", Tigurine version; so Ben Melech; "versus ventos", Schmidt; "ventum versus", Piscator; "in ventum", Cocceius.

Jeremiah 52:23 In-Context

21 de columnis autem decem et octo cubiti altitudinis erant in columna una et funiculus duodecim cubitorum circuibat eam porro grossitudo eius quattuor digitorum et intrinsecus cava erat

22 et capitella super utramque aerea altitudo capitelli unius quinque cubitorum et retiacula et mala granata

23 nonaginta sex dependentia omnia mala granata centum retiaculis circumdabantur

24 et tulit magister militiae Saraiam sacerdotem primum et Sophoniam sacerdotem secundum et tres custodes vestibuli

25 et de civitate tulit eunuchum unum qui erat praepositus super viros bellatores et septem viros de his qui videbant faciem regis qui inventi sunt in civitate et scribam principem militum qui probabat tirones et sexaginta viros de populo terrae qui inventi sunt in medio civitatis