1 Kings 7:47

47 And Solomon did not inquire the weight of the brass of all the vessels because they were exceeding many.

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 and the pots and the shovels and the basins and all the other vessels, which Hiram made to King Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.

46 And the king caused them all to be cast in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.

47 And Solomon did not inquire the weight of the brass of all the vessels because they were exceeding many.

48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house of the LORD: an altar of gold, and a table upon which the showbread was, also of gold,

49 and the lampstands of pure gold, five on the right hand, and five on the left, in front of the oracle, with the flowers and the lamps and the tongs of gold,