an hand-breadth] Being hollow within, as Jeremiah 52:21. two thousand baths] So much was ordinarily put thereinto; but up to the brim it could contain three thousand baths. A bath containeth about eight gallons: by which account, four baths make a barrell; so as this sea could contain five hundred barrells of water; and two hundred and fifty barrells full were ordinarily put into it: This was for the priests to wash in, 2 Chronicles 4:6.