Discovery Box2 Chronicles 3:16 
Context3:16 He made ornamental chains 1 and put them on top of the pillars. He also made one hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments and arranged them within the chains.
2 Chronicles 4:5
Context4:5 It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons. 2
1 tn The Hebrew text adds here, “in the inner sanctuary,” but the description at this point is of the pillars, not the inner sanctuary.
2 tn Heb “3,000 baths” (note that the capacity is given in 1 Kings 7:26 as “2,000 baths”). A bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons (about 22 liters), so 3,000 baths was a quantity of about 18,000 gallons (66,000 liters).
