




Bibliography

A. Edersheim, Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (1883); L. E. Toombs, IDB, Vol. 1 A-D, 365, 366 (1962).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915)



See [[Weights and Measures]].

bath, bath’-ing.

1. Ordinary Bathing:

Bathing in the ordinary, non-religious sense, public or private, is rarely met with in the Scriptures. We find, however, three exceptional and interesting cases:

(1) that of Pharaoh’s daughter, resorting to the Nile (Ex 2:5);

(2) that of Bath-sheba, bathing on the house-top (2Sa 11:2 the [[Revised Version]] (British and American));

(3) the curious case mentioned in 1Ki 22:38. (To wash with royal blood was supposed to be beneficial to the complexion.)



2. Bathing Resorts:

The streams and ponds, when available, were the usual resorts for bathing (Ex 2:5; 2Ki 5:10, etc.), but the water- supply of large cities, stored up in great pools or large cisterns, was certainly available at times to some degree for bathing (2Sa 11:2); though, as Ben