2 Chronicles 4:13 - Exposition

Four hundred pomegranates . This number of pomegranates substantially agrees with the parallel ( 1 Kings 7:20 ), There were two hundred of them on each wreath that encircled the chapiter. The pomegranate was a favourite ornament in work as well as in more solid architectural forms ( Exodus 28:33 , Exodus 28:34 ). The popularity of the fruit as food ( Numbers 13:23 ; Numbers 20:5 ; Deuteronomy 8:8 ; Joshua 15:32 ; Joshua 21:25 ), its simple beauty to the eye (So 2 Chronicles 4:3 , 2 Chronicles 4:13 ), and its welcome homeliness, will quite account for this beside any symbolic significance that may have become attached to it. The description of the pomegranate as a fruit may be found in any Bible dictionary, but especially in Tristram's 'Natural History of the Bible.'