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 the one pillar was eighteen cubits,its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.

With flowers

1 Kings 7:19
Now the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars in the vestibule were of lily-work, four cubits.
1 Kings 6:18
The cedar within the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.

Two thousand

1 Kings 7:38
And he made ten basins of bronze. Each basin held forty baths, each basin measured four cubits, and there was a basin for each of the ten stands.
2 Chronicles 4:5
Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.
Ezekiel 45:14
and as the fixed portion of oil, measured in baths, one tenth of a bath from each cor (the cor, like the homer, contains ten baths).

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