◄ 1 Kings 7:47 ►
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Good News Translation
Solomon did not have these bronze objects weighed, because there were too many of them, and so their weight was never determined.

New Revised Standard Version
Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not determined.

Contemporary English Version
There were so many bronze things that Solomon never bothered to weigh them, and no one ever knew how much bronze was used.

New American Bible
Solomon did not weigh all the articles because they were so numerous; the weight of the bronze, therefore, was not determined.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.

2 Chronicles 4:18 And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.

found out [heb] searched

1 Chronicles 22:14,16 Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all the charges. . . .

Context
Completion of the Bronze Works
…46In the plains of the Jordan, did the king cast them in a clay ground, between Socoth and Sartham. 47And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.
Cross References
2 Kings 25:14
They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the forks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass, with which they ministered.

2 Kings 25:16
That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

1 Chronicles 22:3
And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates, and for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight.

1 Chronicles 22:14
Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all the charges.

2 Chronicles 4:18
And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.

Jeremiah 52:20
And the two pillars, and one sea, and twelve oxen of brass that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: there was no weight of the brass of all these vessels.

1 Kings 7:46
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