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 the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits. And a line of twelve cubits went around it, and the thickness of it was four fingers. It was hollow.

With flowers

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

Two thousand

1 Kings 7:38
And he made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths. The one basin was four cubits, one basin on the one base, to the ten bases.
2 Chronicles 4:5
And its thickness was a handbreadth, and its brim like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies. It received and held three thousand baths.
Ezekiel 45:14
And as to the statute of oil, the bath of oil, you shall offer the tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is a homer of ten baths; for ten baths are a homer;