1 Kings 7:47

Contextual Overview

¹³King Solomon had Hiram brought from Tyre. ¹³ King Shlomo sent and fetched Hiram out of Tzor. ¹³ And king Solomon sent and fetched Hiram out of Tyre. ¹³ And King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre. ¹³ King Solomon sent to Tyre and had Huram brought to him. ¹³ King Solomon sent for Hiram of Tyre. ¹³Now King Solomon sent word and brought Hiram [a skilled craftsman] from Tyre. ¹³ Now King Solomon sent word and had Hiram brought from Tyre. ¹³ Then King Salomon sent, and set one Hiram out of Tyrus. ¹³Then King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

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.