2 Chronicles 4:5
lily blossom <06525 07799> [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.
2 Chronicles 7:5
<02077> [a sacrifice.]
22,000 .... 120,000 <08147 06242> [twenty and two.]
The number of sheep and oxen here mentioned has to some appeared incredibly large; but it must be considered that a prodigious number of persons was now at Jerusalem, and that this was the amount of all the victims that had been offered during the seven days of the feast of tabernacles, as well as the time the feast of the dedication lasted.
dedicated <02596> [dedicated.]
2 Chronicles 32:6
appointed ... officers <08269 05414> [he set captains.]
square <07339> [in the street.]
encouraged ... saying <03824 0559> [comfortably to them. Heb. to their heart.]
