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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Kings 7:17 - 7:17
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nets of checker work - that is, branch-work, resembling the branches of palm trees, and
wreaths of chain-work - that is, 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 were fringes, one hundred in a row. Two rows of pomegranates strung on chains (2Ch 3:16) ran round the capital (1Ki 7:42; compare 2Ch 4:12, 2Ch 4:13; Jer 52:23), which, itself, was of a bowl-like or globular form (1Ki 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.