1 Kings 7:42 -
And four hundred pomegranates [Heb. the pomegranates, 400] for the two networks, even two rows of pomegranates for one network, to cover the two bowls of the chapiters that were upon the pillars [Heb. upon the face of the pillars ] . A chapiter could hardly be correctly described as עַל־פְּנֵי הע . It is probable that this is a clerical error, and that we should read עַל־פְּנֵי הע (Bähr, Keil), "upon the two pillars." So LXX . ἐπ ἀμφοτέροις κ . τ . λ . This is a more likely emendation than עַל ראֹשׁ . It is true thin latter is the reading of some MSS ; and is followed by the Syr. and Vulg; but it can easily be accounted for, being a repetition of the last words of verse 41, while it fails to account, as the first named emendation does, for the עַל־פְנֵי .
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