0 What was the volume of the molten sea?

What was the volume of the molten sea?

225. What was the volume of the molten sea in Solomon's temple?


2000 baths

It contained two thousand baths. 1 Kings 7.26

3000 baths

It received and held three thousand baths. 2 Chronicles 4:5

Note from The New Oxford Annotated Bible for 2 Chronicles 4:5: "See 1 Kings 7.23-26n"
(which has the more correct figure of "two thousand" rather than three thousand baths.)

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