2 Chronicles 4:5

Contextual Overview

¹He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. ¹ He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high. ¹Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height. ¹ Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height. ¹ And he made an aulter of brasse, twentie cubites long, and twentie cubites broade, and ten cubites hie. ¹ And he made a brazen altar: its length was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height ten cubits. ¹ 1 Kings 6:23-38; 7:13-51">[xr] Moreover he made a bronze altar: twenty cubits was its length, twenty cubits its width, and ten cubits its height. ¹ And he made an altar of bronze, its length twenty cubits and its breadth twenty cubits, and its height ten cubits. ¹ He made a bronze altar that was 20 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 10 cubits tall. ¹ Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.

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with flowers of lilies: or, like a lily flower

three thousand baths: In the parallel passage, it is said to hold only two thousand baths; which some think may be reconciled by supposing that the quantity of water which was commonly in it was 2,000 baths, but that, if filled up to the top, it would hold 3,000. But, as we have already seen that the Babylonish cubit was less than that of the ancient Hebrews, it might be the same with measures of capacity; so that 2,000 of the ancient Jewish baths might have been equal to 3,000 of those used after the captivity. The Targum cuts the knot: "It received 3,000 baths of dry measure, and held 2,000 of liquid measure." See note on 1 Kings 7:26. 1 Kings 7:26

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:25 - General 2 Chronicles 4:21 - the flowers

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
The Lord said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
And He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying out to Me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
He said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
And he sayde: What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me out of the grounde.

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? You killed your brother and the ground opened up to take his blood from your hands. Now his blood is shouting to me from the ground. So you will be cursed from this ground.

Genesis 4:10
And the LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
And God seide to Cayn, What hast thou do? the vois of the blood of thi brother crieth to me fro erthe.

Genesis 4:10
And he said, What hast thou done? the voyce of thy brothers blood cryeth vnto me, from the ground.

Genesis 4:10
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Three thousand baths - See 1 Kings 7:23 note. It is quite possible that either here or in Kings the text may have been accidentally corrupted.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 4:5. It - held three thousand baths. — In 1 Kings 7:26, it is said to hold only two thousand baths. As this book was written after the Babylonish captivity, it is very possible that reference is here made to the Babylonish bath which might have been less than the Jewish. We have already seen that the cubit of Moses, or of the ancient Hebrews, was longer than the Babylonish by one palm; see on 2 Chronicles 3:3. It might be the same with the measures of capacity; so that two thousand of the ancient Jewish baths might have been equal to three thousand of those used after the captivity. The Targum cuts the knot by saying, "It received three thousand baths of dry measure, and held two thousand of liquid measure."