2 Chronicles 4:5
ContextNET © | 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. 1 |
NIV © | It was a handbreadth in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths. |
NASB © | It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold 3,000 baths. |
NLT © | The walls of the Sea were about three inches thick, and its rim flared out like a cup and resembled a lily blossom. It could hold about 16,500 gallons of water. |
MSG © | The Sea was three inches thick and flared at the rim like a cup, or a lily. It held about 18,000 gallons. |
BBE © | It was as thick as a man’s open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths. |
NRSV © | Its thickness was a handbreadth; its rim was made like the rim of a cup, like the flower of a lily; it held three thousand baths. |
NKJV © | It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was shaped like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It contained three thousand baths. |
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NET © | 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. 1 |
NET © Notes |
1 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). |