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
Two thousand
Bible References
An hand breadth
Jeremiah 52:21
Concerning the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits (twenty-seven feet), and a line [an ornamental molding] of twelve cubits (eighteen feet) went around its circumference; it was four fingers thick, and [the pillar was] hollow.
With flowers
1 Kings 7:19
The capitals which were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work (design), four cubits.
1 Kings 6:18
The cedar on the house within had wood carvings in the shape of gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was visible.
Two thousand
1 Kings 7:38
Then he made ten basins of bronze; each basin held forty baths and was four cubits, and there was one basin on each of the ten stands.
2 Chronicles 4:5
It was a handbreadth (the width of the four fingers) thick; its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold 3,000 baths (measures).
Ezekiel 45:14
and the prescribed portion of oil, (namely, the bath of oil), a tenth part of a bath [of oil] from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer);