2 Chronicles 4:6 explains the sea was for priests to wash in, clarifying its specific purpose.

2 Chronicles 4:15 adds that the sea stood on twelve oxen, completing the description of its base.

Exodus 30:18-21 gives the command for a bronze laver for priestly washing, the precedent for this sea's purpose.

1 Kings 7:23 is the parallel account of the same molten sea, with identical dimensions and details.

2 Kings 25:13 records the Babylonians breaking up the bronze sea, showing its eventual destruction.

1 Chronicles 18:8 tells how David captured bronze later used to make this sea, linking the material source.

Jeremiah 27:19 lists 'the sea' among temple vessels taken to Babylon — the same bronze sea described here.