Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Kings 7:47
And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
47. neither was the weight of the brass found out ] The R.V. gives ‘could not be found out.’ The verb, which signifies literally ‘to investigate,’ ‘to search out,’ seems employed to indicate that no attempt was made to discover it.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
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 1Ch 18:8.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because the weighing of them was very troublesome, and to no purpose.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(47) Solomon left all the vessels unweighed.The brass for these vessels had (1Ch. 18:8) been taken by David from Tibhath and Chun, cities of the territory of Zobah, and laid up with other stores for the purpose of the Temple. How these cities were so rich in brass we are not told; but there are very ancient copper-mines, once worked by the Egyptians, in the Sinaitic peninsula; and the allusions to mining of various kinds in Job. 28:1-11 (perhaps belonging to the time of Solomon) are very striking.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ki 7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels [unweighed], because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
Ver. 47. Solomon left all the vessels unweighed. ] Many men deal with their preservations, saith one, as Solomon did with the brass of the temple: it was so much, he weighed it not. See 1Ch 22:3 ; 1Ch 22:14 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
found out = sought out. 4
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
because they were exceeding many: Heb. for the exceeding multitude, 2Ch 4:18
found out: Heb. searched, 1Ch 22:14, 1Ch 22:16
Reciprocal: 2Ki 25:14 – the pots 2Ki 25:16 – the brass 1Ch 22:3 – without weight Jer 52:20 – without