1-Kings - 7:47



47 Solomon left all the vessels (unweighed), because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.

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Explanation and meaning of 1-Kings 7:47.

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And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed , because they were exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.
And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed from their exceeding number; the weight of the brass was not ascertained.
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were very numerous: neither was the weight of the brass ascertained.
And Solomon placeth the whole of the vessels; because of the very great abundance, the weight of the brass hath not been searched out.
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.
Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: the weight of the bronze could not be found out.
And Solomon positioned all the items. But because of its exceedingly great amount, the brass was not weighed.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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.

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) "nec invesigari potuerit", Tigurine version: "non pervestigatum est", Junius, Tremellius, Piscator.

Solomon left all these vessels of excessive number unweighed. ויּנּח does not mean he laid them down (= set them up: Movers), but he let them lie, i.e., unweighed, as the additional clause, "the weight of the brass was not ascertained," clearly shows. This large quantity of brass, according to 1-Chronicles 18:8, David had taken from the cities of Hadadezer, adding also the brass presented to him by Toi.

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