I remember them as being delicious, juicy, and refreshing. I don’t know why that particular fruit, but there they were.
She also used to put out a bowl of pomegranates. Me and my cousins would sit around and pick nuts and laugh and talk. Filberts, walnuts, pecans, almonds, Brazil nuts…they were all there and I enjoyed them each year. Every family has their traditions, and in ours, my mother always used to buy lots of shelled nuts and put them in a bowl with nutcrackers. As a personal anecdote, we used to eat them at Thanksgiving. The pomegranate is a good candidate for the forbidden fruit that was eaten in the Garden, though we cannot be sure. They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates all around the hem of the robe, between the pomegranates- bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate around the hem of the robe for ministering, as the Lord had commanded Moses.” (Exodus 39:22-26) On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. “He also made the robe of the ephod woven all of blue, and the opening of the robe in it was like the opening in a garment, with a binding around the opening, so that it might not tear. The hem of the robe must be adorned with pomegranates. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.”īack to 1 Kings, in addition to the pomegranates being cast in bronze for the temple adornment, the LORD had ordered Moses to direct the priests to make specific garments in which they would carry out their duties. “The vine dries up the fig tree languishes. When disobedience comes in, everything dries up. Joel spoke of the pomegranate’s absence being the opposite of provision. And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you.” (Deuteronomy 8:7-10) “For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. One of those provisions was fruit of the land, and one of those fruits was pomegranates. The LORD was bringing the people out of bondage and delivering them to a land rich with provision. Thanks to Wayne Blank of Keyway Bible Study, here is the lowdown on pomegranates. The other questions can’t be answered this side of the veil, but I can always ask Hiram when I get there.Īs to the pomegranates, I did find out a lot of stuff from the bible. “Did Hiram get tired of making 400 pomegranates?” “What was Hiram thinking when he made all those pomegranates?” So Hiram finished all the work that he did for King Solomon on the house of the Lord: the two pillars, the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars, and the two latticeworks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars and the four hundred pomegranates for the two latticeworks, two rows of pomegranates for each latticework, to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the pillars the ten stands, and the ten basins on the stands and the one sea, and the twelve oxen underneath the sea.” (1 Kings 7:40-44) “Hiram also made the pots, the shovels, and the basins. I also got stuck on the detail the LORD put in the chapter about the 400 pomegranates.
Whoa, the cherubim wings! Fifteen feet wide?! They are very powerful angels in real life and if they look like they do as represented in bronze in the description of the temple that are awesome! I was entranced in chapter 7 by the description of the temple artifacts. Solomon built the Temple, his Palace, and in chapter 8, prayed blessings unto God.
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