2 Chronicles 4:5 · KJV
“And the thickness of it {was} an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; {and} it received and held three thousand baths. {with flowers...: or, like a lilyflower}”
— 2 Chronicles 4:5
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea {was set} above upon them, and all their hinder parts {were} inward.
He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea {was} for the priests to wash in. {such...: Heb. the work of burnt offering}
2 Chronicles 4 — Context
And under it {was} the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen {were} cast, when it was cast.
4It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea {was set} above upon them, and all their hinder parts {were} inward.
5And the thickness of it {was} an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; {and} it received and held three thousand baths. {with flowers...: or, like a lilyflower}
6He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea {was} for the priests to wash in. {such...: Heb. the work of burnt offering}
7And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set {them} in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.
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