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WISDOM AND SOUND ADVICE FROM THE TORAH

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; the four hundred pome-
granates for the two sets of network; two rows of pomegranates
for each network, decorating the bowl-shaped capitals on top of
the pillars... were of burnished bronze. (1 Kings, 7:41-42, 45)

Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty-five cu-
bits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them
was five cubits. He made interwoven chains and put them on
top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and

attached them to the chains. (2 Chronicles, 3:15-16)

... They carried all the bronze to Babylon. The pots also, and
the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons,
and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered, took
they away... The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the
twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands, which
King Solomon had made in the house of the Lord, was more
than could be weighed. Each of the pillars was eighteen cubits
high and twelve cubits in circumference; each was four fingers
thick, and hollow. The bronze capital on top of the one pillar
was five cubits high and was decorated with a network and
pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its

pomegranates, was similar. There were ninety-six pomegran-
ates on the sides; the total number of pomegranates above the
surrounding network was a hundred. (Jeremiah 52:17-23)

The portico was twenty cubits wide, and twelve cubits from
front to back. It was reached by a flight of stairs, and there
were pillars on each side of the jambs. (Ezekiel, 40:49)

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