1 Kings 7:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Over against the belly So he calls the middle part of the chapiter, which jetted farthest out. The pomegranates were two hundred They are said to be ninety and six on the side of a pillar, in one row, and in all a hundred, (Jeremiah 52:23,) four pomegranates between the several checker-works being added to the first ninety-six. And it must needs be granted that there were as many on the other side of the pillar, or in the other row, which makes them two hundred upon a pillar, as is here said, and four hundred upon both pillars, as they are numbered, 2 Chronicles 4:13.

1 Kings 7:20

20 And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.