Verse 26
26. Like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies Literally, its lip was as the work of the lip of a cup a flower of a lily. The brim curved outward, and was engraved with lily flowers.
Two thousand baths About seventeen thousand gallons. The reading three thousand, in 2 Chronicles 4:5, is probably an error. By estimating the capacity of this sea from its dimensions, as given in 1 Kings 7:23, it seems hardly possible that it could have held so much. But all calculations based on the dimensions given in 1 Kings 7:23 must be uncertain because of our ignorance of the exact shape of the laver. Perhaps the two thousand baths may denote the capacity, not only of the laver or sea proper, but also of the basin beneath it, as seen in the cut. This sea held the water which the priests used for their ablutions. 2 Chronicles 4:6.
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