1 Kings 7:23
Good News Translation
Huram made a round tank of bronze, 7½ feet deep, 15 feet in diameter, and 45 feet in circumference.

New Revised Standard Version
Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completely.

Contemporary English Version
Hiram also made a large bowl called the Sea. It was just over two meters deep, about 4.5 meters across, and 13.5 meters around.

New American Bible
Then he made the molten sea; it was made with a circular rim, and measured ten cubits across, five in height, and thirty in circumference.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim to brim, round all about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim to brim, round all about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

he made

Exodus 30:18-21 Thou shalt make also a brazen laver with its foot to wash in: and thou shalt set it between the tabernacle of the testimony and the altar. And water being put into it: . . .

Exodus 38:8 He made also the laver of brass, with the foot thereof, of the mirrors of the women that watched at the door of the tabernacle.

a molten sea

2 Kings 25:13 And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 4:2 Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

Jeremiah 52:17,20 The Chaldeans also broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass that was in the house of the Lord: and they carried all the brass of them to Babylon. . . .

Context
The Molten Sea
23He made also a molten sea, of ten cubits, from brim to brim, round all about; the height of it was five cubits, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.24And a graven work, under the brim of it, compassed it for ten cubits going about the sea: there were two rows cast of chamfered sculptures.…
Cross References
1 Kings 7:22
And upon the tops of the pillars he made lily work: so the work of the pillars was finished.

1 Kings 7:44
And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea.

2 Kings 16:17
And king Achaz took away the graven bases, and the laver that was upon them: and he took down the sea from the brazen oxen that held it up, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

2 Kings 25:13
And the pillars of brass that were in the temple of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass, which was in the house of the Lord, the Chaldees broke in pieces, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 4:2
Also a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass: it was five cubits high, and a line of thirty cubits compassed it round about.

Jeremiah 52:17
The Chaldeans also broke in pieces the brazen pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and the sea of brass that was in the house of the Lord: and they carried all the brass of them to Babylon.

1 Kings 7:22
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