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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
Each of the pillars was about 27 feet high, about 18 feet in circumference, three inches thick, and hollow.

With flowers

1 Kings 7:19
The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high.
1 Kings 6:18
The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.

Two thousand

1 Kings 7:38
He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. Each basin was six feet in diameter; there was one basin for each stand.
2 Chronicles 4:5
It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.
Ezekiel 45:14
and as the prescribed portion of olive oil, one tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer);

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