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A Precise and Painful Inventory
Commentators explain that the detailed accounting of the pomegranates—96 on the sides (24 for each of the four directions or 'winds') plus four on the corners to make 100—is not just trivia. This precision highlights the care and beauty invested in God's temple.
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Jeremiah
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Albert Barnes
On Jeremiah 52:23
18th Century
Theologian
On a side—The 96 were toward the four winds, 24 toward the north, 24 toward the east, and so on. Add one at each corner, and the whole 100 i…
Charles Ellicott
On Jeremiah 52:21–23
19th Century
Bishop
And concerning the pillars ... —In 2 Kings 25:16–17, we have a list abbreviated by the omission of some of the measure…
John Calvin
On Jeremiah 52:1–34
16th Century
Theologian
Laus Deo
Commentary on Lamentations
Calvin's Preface
LECTURES OF JOHN CALVIN
ON
THE LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH
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John Gill
On Jeremiah 52:23
17th Century
Pastor
And there were ninety and six pomegranates on a side Or, "to the wind" F5 ; to the four winds; towards every c…
Matthew Henry
On Jeremiah 52:12–23
17th Century
Minister
The Chaldean army made woeful havoc. But nothing is related here as particularly as the carrying away of the articles in the temple. The remembranc…