John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 52:23

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side, etc.] Or, “to the wind”f1110; 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 (<110720>1 Kings 7:20); they are said to be two hundred; and in (<140413>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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