Commentary for I Kings 7:16

Two crown shapes. Pomels, in O. F.

Cast. Tresjited, in O.F.

One crown was five amohs high. And at the end of the book it states, “three amohs.” We learned in the Mishnah of “Forty-nine Measurements,” that the two lower amohs of the crowns were similar to the column because there were no designs in them, and the three upper [amohs] that extended beyond, were surrounded with designs, as it is stated, “branches designed like net [mesh] work,”²⁶Below v. 17. by the likes of the branches of a palm tree they were surrounded But I say, that the two lower amohs were not counted at the end of the book [of Melachim] because they were similar to the column and the column were inserted into the crown. two amohs