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Baths
The use of the bath was very frequent among the Hebrews (Lev. 14:8; Num. 19:19, ect.). The high priest at his inauguration (Lev. 8:6), and on the day of atonement, was required to bathe himself (16:4, 24). The “pools” mentioned in Neh. 3:15, 16, 2 Kings 20:20, Isa. 22:11, John 9:7, were public bathing-places.
In the Bible
8
Verses where Baths is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 1 Kings 5:11
and year after year Solomon would provide Hiram with 20,000 cors of wheat as food for his household, as well as 20,000 baths of pure olive oil.
- 1 Kings 7:26
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold two thousand baths.
- 1 Kings 7:38
He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
- 2 Chronicles 2:10
I will pay your servants, the woodcutters, 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths of wine, and 20,000 baths of olive oil. ”
- 2 Chronicles 4:5
It was a handbreadth thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom. It could hold three thousand baths.
- Ezekiel 45:14
The prescribed portion of oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath from each cor (a cor consists of ten baths or one homer, since ten baths are equivalent to a homer).
+2 more verses naming Baths.
Scripture on Baths
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Entries that reference Baths
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Voices on Baths
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Surfaced by name match — accuracy varies by title clarity.
Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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