* an hand breadth.
Jer 52:21
* with flowers.
19 6:18,32,35
* it contained.
This immense laver, called a sea from it magnitude, held, at a
moderate computation, 16,000; gallons. Besides this great
brazen laver, there were in the temple ten lavers of brass of
a less size, which moved on wheels, and were ornamented with
the figures of various animals, having, probably, always some
relation to the cherubim. These lavers were to hold water for
the use of the priests in their sacred office, particularly to
wash the victims that were to be offered as a burnt offering,
as we learn from 2; Ch 4:6; but the brazen sea was for the
priests to wash in. The knops are supposed to have been in
the form of an ox's head, (2; Ch 4:3;) and some think the water
flowed out at their mouths.
* two thousand.
38 2Ch 4:5 Eze 45:14
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