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And two rows. Of pomegranates and of copper; the pomegranates were inserted into the chain [work] which encircled the crowns, thus is this explained in Divrei Hayomim²⁸See II Divrei Hayomim 3:16. and in the Mishnah of “Forty-Nine Measurements.”

To cover the crowns that were on top of the pomegranates. [The text of] this verse is in a disarranged order.²⁹Alternatively, the verse can be explained according to its literal translation. The crowns were on the columns and the pomegranates were on the crowns. There were also other crowns which were on the pomegranates.—Radak. Or, the pomegranates were located on the lower bowl of the crown and the word על means “near” rather than “on top of.” [It means,] “the pomegranates should cover the crowns which were on the top.” And thus were the crowns made according to the order of the apparent meaning of the verses; each one was in the form of two bowls. The receptacle of the lower bowl was facing upward and it is called גולה [=a bowl], as it is stated about this subject, “וגולת הכותרות,”³⁰Below v. 41. and [Targum] Yonoson rendered this, “and the bowls of the crowns.” The upper [bowl] was inverted on the lower one, its receptacle was [facing] downward, and it was called שבכה [=net or mesh] work, as it is stated regarding this subject, “[also] two net [mesh] works to cover the two bowls of the crowns.”³¹Ibid. The result being that it is wide in the place where it is connected, and it narrows going upward and it narrows going downward, and this is called “a stomach,” and thus [Targum] Yonoson rendered מעלות הבטן,³²Below v. 20. “against the place of attachment.” And the height of these two bowls was four amohs,³³See below v. 19. and this is what he stated, “in the entrance hall were made like lilies, four amohs.” These were decorated inside with flowers of lilies, in the same design of the decorations which were on the wall of the entrance halls; four amohs high, and the fifth amoh was a small crown above the big one. This is what was stated, “And there were also crowns above on the two columns.”³⁴Below v. 20.