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
And as for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a line of twelve cubits encompassed it, and the thickness of it was four fingers; it was hollow.

With flowers

1 Kings 7:19
And the capitals that were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily-work, four cubits.
1 Kings 6:18
And there was cedar on the house inside, carved with knops and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone seen.

Two thousand

1 Kings 7:38
And he made ten basins of brass. One basin contained forty baths. And every basin was four cubits. And upon every one of the ten bases one basin.
2 Chronicles 4:5
And it was a handbreadth thick. And the brim of it was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.
Ezekiel 45:14
and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, [which is] ten baths, even a homer, (for ten baths are a homer),