Holy Scripture

1 Kings 7:20

A church father on this verse
“We have said that the pomegranates were a type of either the whole church or of each individual believer, but the number one hundred that was originally applied to the right hand was sometimes apt to be used as a figure of eternal beatitude. There were twice this number of pomegranates around the second capital to sug…”
Bede, 8th c. — Of the Temple of Solomon 2.18.15

Source: Septuagint

Original

20The four side pieces were at the four corners of each base; its shoulders were formed of the base.

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18And there were axles in the wheels under the base. And the height of one wheel was a cubit and a half.

19And the work of the wheels was as the work of chariot wheels: their axles, and their felloes, and the rest of their work, were all molten.

— 1 Kings 7:20 —

21And on the top of the base half a cubit was the size of it, there was a circle on the top of the base, and there was the top of its spaces and its borders: and it was open at the top of its spaces.

22And its borders were cherubs, and lions, and palm trees, upright, each was joined in front and within and round about.

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