2 Chronicles 4:2
Context4:2 He also made the big bronze basin called “The Sea.” 1 It measured 15 feet 2 from rim to rim, was circular in shape, and stood seven and one-half feet 3 high. Its circumference was 45 feet. 4
2 Chronicles 4:6
Context4:6 He made ten washing basins; he put five on the south side and five on the north side. In them they rinsed the items used for burnt sacrifices; the priests washed in “The Sea.”
2 Chronicles 4:14-15
Context4:14 the ten 5 movable stands with their ten 6 basins, 4:15 the big bronze basin called “The Sea” with its twelve bulls underneath,
[4:2] 1 tn Heb “He made the sea, cast.”
[4:2] 2 tn Heb “ten cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the diameter would have been 15 feet (4.5 m).
[4:2] 3 tn Heb “five cubits.” Assuming a cubit of 18 inches (45 cm), the height would have been 7.5 feet (2.25 m).
[4:2] 4 tn Heb “and a measuring line went around it thirty cubits all around.”
[4:14] 5 tc The Hebrew text has עָשָׂה (’asah, “he made”), which is probably a corruption of עֶשֶׂר (’eser, “ten”; see 1 Kgs 7:43).
[4:14] 6 tc The Hebrew text has עָשָׂה (’asah, “he made”), which is probably a corruption of עֲשָׂרָה (’asarah, “ten”; see 1 Kgs 7:43).