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     * 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|