Three cubits. — An error of transcription for five. Five cubits was the height of the capital according to 1 Kings 7:16; Jeremiah 52:22; 2 Chronicles 3:15.
The wreathen work. — Lattice-work (1 Kings 7:17).
With wreathen work. — Upon the lattice-work. Thenius says this is the residuum of a sentence preserved in Jeremiah — namely, “And the pomegranates were ninety and six towards the outside; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the lattice-work round about” (Jeremiah 52:23). Our text is, at any rate, much abridged.