1 Kings 7:26 “It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of…”

1 Kings 7:26

It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

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.

American Standard Version

And it was a handbreadth thick: and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.

Geneva Bible 1599

It was an hand bredth thicke, and the brim thereof was like the worke of the brim of a cup with floures of lilyes: it contained two thousad Baths.

Darby Translation

And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim was like the work of the brim of a cup, with lily-blossoms; it held two thousand baths.

Young's Literal Translation

And its thickness [is] an handbreadth, and its edge as the work of the edge of a cup, flowers of lilies; two thousand baths it containeth.

Bible in Basic English

It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.

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Cross references

“an hand breadth”

Jeremiah 52:21

Jeremiah 52:21 · BSB

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

“with flowers”

1 Kings 7:19 1 Kings 6:18 1 Kings 6:32 1 Kings 6:35

1 Kings 7:19 · BSB

And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.

1 Kings 6:18 · BSB

The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.

1 Kings 6:32 · BSB

The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

1 Kings 6:35 · BSB

He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold hammered evenly over the carvings.

“two thousand”

2 Chronicles 4:5 1 Kings 7:38 Ezekiel 45:14

2 Chronicles 4:5 · BSB

It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.

1 Kings 7:38 · BSB

He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.

Ezekiel 45:14 · BSB

The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25The Sea stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The Sea rested on them, with all their hindquarters toward the center.

27In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.

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