And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
Nets of checker-work - i:e., branch-work, resembling the branches of palm trees, and wreaths of chain-work;
i.e., plaited in the form of a chain composing a sort of crown or garland. Seven of these were wound in festoons on one capital, and over and underneath them fringes, one hundred in a row; and two rows of pomegranates strung on chains (2 Chronicles 3:16) ran round the capital (1 Kings 7:42; cf. 2 Chronicles 4:12-13; Jeremiah 52:23), which itself was of a bowl-like or globular form (1 Kings 7:41). These rows were designed to form a binding to the ornamental work, to keep it from falling asunder; and they were so placed as to be above the chain-work, and below the place where the branch-work was.