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The sea was three inches[a] thick. Its rim was shaped like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held eighteen thousand gallons.[b]

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  1. 2 Chronicles 4:5 Literally a handbreadth
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:5 Literally three thousand baths. In 1 Kings 7:26, it reads two thousand baths. Perhaps the two passages were using different standards for the bath or rounding off.

It was a handbreadth[a] in thickness, and its rim was like the rim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It held three thousand baths.[b]

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  1. 2 Chronicles 4:5 That is, about 3 inches or about 7.5 centimeters
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:5 That is, about 18,000 gallons or about 66,000 liters