📖WEB · 2 Chronicles 4:2
What does 2 Chronicles 4:2 mean?
"Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference."
— 2 Chronicles 4:2 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Then he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
Also he made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim. It was round, five cubits high, and thirty cubits in circumference.
Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.
It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hindquarters were inward.
It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.
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