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1 Kings 7:47

Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Art;   Brass;   Carving;   Master Workman;   Mechanic;   Temple;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Bronze;   Copper;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hiram;   Israel;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Metals;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Solomon left all the utensils unweighed because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
Hebrew Names Version
Shlomo left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.
King James Version
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
English Standard Version
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not ascertained.
New Century Version
Solomon never weighed the bronze used to make these things, because there was too much to weigh. So the total weight of all the bronze was never known.
New English Translation
Solomon left all these items unweighed; there were so many of them they did not weigh the bronze.
New American Standard Bible
However, Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Salomon left to weigh all the vessels because of the exceeding aboundance, neyther could the weight of the brasse be counted.
Legacy Standard Bible
And Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be found out.
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.
Complete Jewish Bible
Shlomo did not weigh any of these objects, because there were so many of them; thus the total weight of the bronze could not be determined.
Darby Translation
And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed] from their exceeding number; the weight of the brass was not ascertained.
George Lamsa Translation
And Solomon made all sorts of vessels, exceeding many; there was no limit to the weighing of the brass which King Solomon used for the house of the LORD;
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.
Lexham English Bible
Solomon left all of the vessels unweighed because of their very great abundance, so the weight of the bronze could not be determined.
Literal Translation
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed because they were very, very many; the weight of the bronze was not searched out.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Salomon let all the apparell be vnweyed, because the metall was so moch.
American Standard Version
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.
Bible in Basic English
The weight of all these vessels was not measured, because there was such a number of them; it was not possible to get the weight of the brass.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Solomon left all the vessels [vn. wayed] because they were so exceeding many, neither founde they out the waight of the brasse.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many; the weight of the brass could not be found out.
King James Version (1611)
And Solomon left all the vessels vnweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brasse found out.
English Revised Version
And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.
Berean Standard Bible
Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Salomon settide alle the vessels; forsothe for greet multitude no weiyte was of bras, `that is, it passide al comyn weiyte.
Young's Literal Translation
And Solomon placeth the whole of the vessels; because of the very great abundance, the weight of the brass hath not been searched out.
Update Bible Version
And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: the weight of the bronze could not be found out.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were very numerous: neither was the weight of the brass ascertained.
World English Bible
Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.
New King James Version
And Solomon did not weigh all the articles, because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
New Living Translation
Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be measured.
New Life Bible
Solomon did not weigh any of the objects, because there were too many. The weight of the brass was not known.
New Revised Standard
Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Solomon let all the vessels be, because of their exceeding great multitude, - the weight of the bronze was not found out.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.
Revised Standard Version
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them; the weight of the bronze was not found out.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because they were too many; the weight of the bronze could not be ascertained.

Contextual Overview

13Now King Solomon sent word and brought Hiram [a skilled craftsman] from Tyre. 14He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a craftsman in bronze. Hiram was filled with wisdom, understanding, and skill for doing any [kind of] work in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and did all his [bronze] work. 15He cast the two pillars of bronze; the one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and a [measuring] line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both. 16He also made two capitals (crowns) of cast bronze to put on the tops of the pillars; the height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits. 17There were nets of network (lattice-work) and twisted threads (wreaths) of chainwork for the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars, seven for one capital and seven for the other. 18So Hiram made the pillars [in this manner], and two rows around on the one network to cover the capitals which were on the top of the pomegranates; and he did the same for the other capital. 19The capitals which were upon the top of the pillars in the porch were of lily work (design), four cubits. 20The capitals were on the two pillars and also above and close to the rounded projection which was beside the network. There were two hundred pomegranates in rows around both capitals. 21Hiram set up the pillars at the porch of the temple; he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin (may he establish), and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz (in it is strength). 22On the tops of the pillars was lily work (design). So the work of the pillars was finished.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

because they were exceeding many: Heb. for the exceeding multitude, 2 Chronicles 4:18

found out: Heb. searched, 1 Chronicles 22:14, 1 Chronicles 22:16

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 25:14 - the pots 2 Kings 25:16 - the brass 1 Chronicles 22:3 - without weight Jeremiah 52:20 - without

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" i; it never was inquired into; or, as the Targum, there was no end of it, it was so much.

i לא נחקר "nec invesigari potuerit", Tigurine version: "non pervestigatum est", Junius, Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The brass of which the two pillars, Jachin and Boaz, the brass sea, and the various vessels were made had been taken by David from two cities belonging to Hadadezer, king of Zobah 1 Chronicles 18:8.


 
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