1 Kings 7:47

47 Solomon left all these things unweighed, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.

1 Kings 7:47 in Other Translations

47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.

47 Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be measured.

47 These artifacts were never weighed - there were far too many! Nobody has any idea how much bronze was used.

47 Solomon left all the utensils unweighed because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.

1 Kings 7:47 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:47

And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they
were exceeding many
The vessels of brass before mentioned, being so large, at least some of them, and so numerous; the Targum is, he laid them up, or placed them; he brought them from whence they were cast, and put them in the sanctuary without weighing them:

neither was the weight of the brass found out;
or "searched" ^F9; it never was inquired into; or, as the Targum, there was no end of it, it was so much.

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FOOTNOTES:

F9 (rqxn al) "nec invesigari potuerit", Tigurine version: "non pervestigatum est", Junius, Tremellius, Piscator.

1 Kings 7:47 In-Context

45 the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls. All these objects that Huram made for King Solomon for the temple of the LORD were of burnished bronze.

46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain of the Jordan between Sukkoth and Zarethan.

47 Solomon left all these things unweighed, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.

48 Solomon also made all the furnishings that were in the LORD’s temple: the golden altar; the golden table on which was the bread of the Presence;

49 the lampstands of pure gold (five on the right and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary); the gold floral work and lamps and tongs;

Cross References

• 1. 1 Chronicles 22:3; Jeremiah 52:20
• 2. Exodus 36:5-7
• 3. S ver 23