Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.

An hand breadth

With flowers

Bible References

An hand breadth

Jeremiah 52:21
As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.

With flowers

1 Kings 7:19
The capitals which were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily design, four cubits.
1 Kings 6:18
There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen.

Two thousand

1 Kings 7:38
He made ten basins of bronze, one basin held forty baths; each basin was four cubits, and on each of the ten stands was one basin.
2 Chronicles 4:5
It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold 3,000 baths.
Ezekiel 45:14
and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer);