2 Chronicles 4:3

3 Under it were figures of gourds,^[a] for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.

2 Chronicles 4:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 3:3

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 3:1).

2 Chronicles 4:3 In-Context

1 He made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and ten cubits high.

2 Then he made the sea of cast metal. It was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits measured its circumference.

3 Under it were figures of gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.

4 It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The sea was set on them, and all their rear parts were inward.

5 Its thickness was a handbreadth. And its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held 3,000 baths.

Footnotes

• [a]. Compare 1 Kings 7:24; Hebrew oxen; twice in this verse