2 Chronicles 3:16 meaning and explanation
He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He made a hundred pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.
2 Chronicles 3:16, Berean Standard Bible
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The Chronicler describes Solomon's temple construction, and here he details the ornamentation crowning the two bronze pillars standing before the sanctuary. The Hebrew word for the chains, sharsherot, suggests a twisted or braided pattern, and the pomegranates were decorative fruit shapes worked into that chainwork.
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