1 Kings 7:47
And Solomon set down all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceedingly many: the weight of the copper was not inquired into.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
46In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay-ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 22:3And iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings, did David prepare; and copper in abundance, [which] could not be weighed;
1 Chronicles 22:16The gold, the silver, and the copper, and the iron cannot be numbered: arise, [therefore,] and be doing, and may the Lord be with thee.
Matthew Henry on 1 Kings 7:14-48
13 And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. 14 He was a widow's son of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass: and he was filled with wisdom, and understanding, and cunning to work all works in brass. And he came to king Solomon, and wrought all his work. 15 For he cast two pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits high apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about. 16 And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars:… Read the whole commentary →