1 Kings 7:38

7:38 He also made ten bronze basins, each of which could hold about 240 gallons. Each basin was six feet in diameter; there was one basin for each stand.

1 Kings 10:20

10:20 There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom.

1 Kings 16:23

16:23 In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.


tn Heb “forty baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).

tn Heb “four cubits, each basin.” It is unclear which dimension is being measured.

tn Heb “nothing like it had been made for all the kingdoms.”