(A)He also made the [a]Sea of cast metal, [b]ten cubits from brim to brim, circular in form, and its height was [c]five cubits and [d]its circumference [e]thirty cubits.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:2 I.e., large basin
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:2 About 15 ft. or 4.6 m
  3. 2 Chronicles 4:2 About 7.5 ft. or 2.3 m
  4. 2 Chronicles 4:2 Lit a line of 30 cubits encircling it round about
  5. 2 Chronicles 4:2 About 45 ft. or 14 m

He made the Sea(A) of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits[a] high. It took a line of thirty cubits[b] to measure around it.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 4:2 That is, about 7 1/2 feet or about 2.3 meters
  2. 2 Chronicles 4:2 That is, about 45 feet or about 14 meters

Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

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