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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

The four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of network,
two rows of pomegranates for each network, decorating the
bowl-shaped capitals on top of the pillars. (1 Kings, 7:42)

Below the rim, gourds encircled it—ten to a cubit. The gourds
were cast in two rows in one piece with the Sea. (1 Kings, 7:24)

The inside of the house was cedar, carved with gourds and
open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.
(1 Kings, 6:18)

He carved all the walls of the house round about with carved
figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, inside
and outside... And on the two olive wood doors he carved
cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the
cherubim and palm trees with beaten gold. (1 Kings, 6:29-35)

He paneled the main hall with pine and covered it with fine
gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs. (2
Chronicles, 3:5)

He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pil-
lars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached
them to the chains. (2 Chronicles, 3:16)

...the two pillars; the two bowl-shaped capitals on top of the
pillars; the two sets of network decorating the two bowl-
shaped capitals on top of the pillars. And the four hundred

pomegranates for the two networks; two rows of pomegran-
ates for each network, to cover the two bowls of the capitals
that were on the pillars. (2 Chronicles, 4:12-13)

Each of the pillars was eighteen cubits high... The bronze cap-
ital on top of the one pillar was five cubits high and was dec-

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