Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The palm or hand-breadth seems to have a little exceeded three inches.
With flowers of lilies - Rather, "in the shape of a lily flower." The rim was slightly curved outward, like the rim of an ordinary drinking-cup, or the edge of a lily blossom. See II Chronicles 4:5 margin.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing 1 Kings 7:26:
Exodus 30:17-21
1 Kings 7:23
Hebrews 9:10
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