1 Kings 7:47

47 Solomon left all of the vessels [unweighed] because of their very great abundance, so the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

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, the shovels, and the bowls for drinking wine. All the vessels of the tent which Hiram had made for King Solomon [for] the house of Yahweh [were] polished bronze.

46 The king had cast them in the plain of the Jordan with the casting mold [set in] the ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

47 Solomon left all of the vessels [unweighed] because of their very great abundance, so the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

48 Solomon also made all of the vessels which [were] in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar and the golden table on which [was] the bread of the presence;

49 as well as the five lampstands of beaten gold at the south and five lampstands at the north before the presence of the inner sanctuary, with the flower-shaped ornaments, the lamps, and the pair of tongs [all of gold].