2 Chronicles 4:18

All of those things that Solomon told them to make used a very large amount of bronze; no one tried to weigh it all.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

In Context

17They made them by pouring melted bronze into the clay molds that Huram had set up near the Jordan river between Succoth and Zarethan cities.

19Solomon’s workers also made all these things that were put at the temple: the golden altar, the tables on which the priests put the sacred bread,

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Cross References

1 Kings 7:47Solomon did not tell his workers to weigh those bronze objects, because there were many items. So no one ever knew what they weighed.

1 Chronicles 22:14“I have tried hard to provide materials for building the temple of Yahweh. I have provided nearly 4,000 tons of gold, and nearly 40,000 tons of silver. I have also provided a very large amount of iron and bronze; no one has been able to weigh it all. I have also gathered/provided lumber and stone for the walls of the temple, but you may need to get some more of those things.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 4:12-22

11 And Huram made the pots, and the shovels, and the basons. And Huram finished the work that he was to make for king Solomon for the house of God; 12 To wit, the two pillars, and the pommels, and the chapiters which were on the top of the two pillars, and the two wreaths to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were on the top of the pillars; 13 And four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.… Read the whole commentary →

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