It stood upon twelve oxen: three looked toward the North, and three looked toward the West, and three looked toward the South, and three looked toward the East, and the Sea stood above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

And the thickness thereof was an hand breadth, and the brim thereof was like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of [a]lilies: it contained [b]three thousand baths.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:5 Or, flower delices.
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:5 In 1 Kings 7:26, mention is only made of two thousand, but the less number was taken there, and here according as the measures proved afterward, is declared.

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