1 Kings 7:26

and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The 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.

In Context

25And there were twelve oxen under the sea: three looking to the north, and three looking to the west, and three looking to the south, and three looking to the east: and all their hinder parts were + 7:25 Lit. to or into the house. inward, and the sea was above upon them.

27And he made ten brazen bases: five cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth of it, and its height was six cubits.

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Cross References

1 Kings 7:19And on the heads of the pillars he made lily-work against the porch, of four cubits,

2 Chronicles 4:5And its thickness was a hand-breadth, and its brim as the brim of a cup, graven with flowers of lilies, holding three thousand measures: and he finished it.

Ezekiel 45:11And in like manner there shall be one choenix as a measure of capacity; the tenth of the homer shall be the choenix, and the tenth of the homer shall be in fair proportion to the homer.

Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 7:14-48

13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. 14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work. 15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars:… Read the whole commentary →

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