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1 Kings 7:26-28
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1 Kings 7:26-28
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26 The reservoir, which held about 2,000 baths,[a] stood about a handbreadth[b] thick, and its rim looked like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom.
The Ten Water Carts
27 Hiram[c] also made ten bronze water carts.[d] Each one was four cubits[e] wide, four cubits long,[f] and three cubits[g] high. 28 The carts were designed with borders between cross-pieces,
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- 1 Kings 7:26 I.e. about 12,000 gallons; Cf. 2Chron 4:52, where the volume is given at 3,000 baths
- 1 Kings 7:26 I.e. about three inches; a handbreadth was about one sixth of a cubit
- 1 Kings 7:27 Lit. He
- 1 Kings 7:27 Or stands, and so throughout this paragraph
- 1 Kings 7:27 I.e. about six feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 1 Kings 7:27 I.e. about six feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
- 1 Kings 7:27 I.e. about four and a half feet; a cubit was about eighteen inches
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