Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options

1 Kings 7:25-26
New English Translation

25 “The Sea”[a] stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. “The Sea” was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.[b] 26 It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold about 12,000 gallons.[c]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:25 tn Heb “It.” The proper noun “The Sea” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  2. 1 Kings 7:25 tn Heb “all their hindquarters were toward the inside.”
  3. 1 Kings 7:26 tn Heb “2,000 baths” (a bath was a liquid measure roughly equivalent to six gallons).
Next
1 Kings 6
1 Kings 8
Next
dropdown
New English Translation (NET)

NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com All rights reserved.