Lily

The principal capitals of the temple ornamented with carvings of

• 1 Kings 7:19

  And the chapiters that were upon the top of the pillars were of lily work in the porch, four cubits.

• 1 Kings 7:22

  And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.

• 1 Kings 7:26

  And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.

Molded on the rim of the molten laver in the temple

• 1 Kings 7:26

  And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.

• 2 Chronicles 4:5

  And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.

Lessons of trust gathered from

• Matthew 6:28–30

  And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

• Luke 12:27

  Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

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