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1 Kings 7:26

It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And it was a hand-breadth thick; and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held two thousand baths.

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Cross-references (8)

Passages linked to 1 Kings 7:26 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 4:5 It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.
  • 1 Kings 6:18 There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.
  • 1 Kings 6:32 So he made two doors of olive wood; and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.
  • 1 Kings 6:35 He carved cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.
  • 1 Kings 7:19 The capitals that were on the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work, four cubits.
  • 1 Kings 7:38 He made ten basins of bronze. One basin contained forty baths; and every basin was four cubits; and on every one of the ten bases one basin.
  • Jeremiah 52:21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.
  • Ezekiel 45:14 and the set portion of oil, of the bath of oil, one tenth of a bath out of the cor, which is ten baths, even a homer; (for ten baths are a homer;)

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Explain this verse (10 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, a span.

Or, a span.

Bath and Ephah seem to be both one measure, Ezek. 45:11, every bath contained about ten pottles.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 7:26 And it [was] an hand breadth thick,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Which amounts to five hundred barrels, each bath containing…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he made ten bases of brass,.... Seats, stands,…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Baths - Which amounts to five hundred barrels, each…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The palm or hand-breadth seems to have a little…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Two thousand bates. That is, about ten thousand gallons.…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 26. Like the brim of a cup, with flowers…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 26. an handbreadth thick] i.e. The metal of which…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And it was a handbreadth thick i.e., three inches,…

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