“It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. 1 Kings 7 contains 51 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.