* 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
   1; Ki 7:26.

  1Ki 7:26