1 Kings 7:47
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And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.

2 Chronicles 4:18 And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.

found out [heb] searched

1 Chronicles 22:14,16 Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all the charges. . . .

Context
Completion of the Bronze Works
46In the plains of the Jordan, did the king cast them in a clay ground, between Socoth and Sartham. 47And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for its exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.
Cross References
2 Kings 25:14
They took away also the pots of brass, and the mazers, and the forks, and the cups, and the mortars, and all the vessels of brass, with which they ministered.

2 Kings 25:16
That is, two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made in the temple of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

1 Chronicles 22:3
And David prepared in abundance iron for the nails of the gates, and for the closures and joinings: and of brass an immense weight.

1 Chronicles 22:14
Behold I in my poverty have prepared the charges of the house of the Lord, of gold a hundred thousand talents, and of silver a million of talents: but of brass, and of iron there is no weight, for the abundance surpasseth all account: timber also and stones I have prepared for all the charges.

2 Chronicles 4:18
And the multitude of vessels was innumerable, so that the weight of the brass was not known.

Jeremiah 52:20
And the two pillars, and one sea, and twelve oxen of brass that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord: there was no weight of the brass of all these vessels.

Lexicon
Solomon {left}
שְׁלֹמֹה֙ (šə·lō·mōh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8010: Solomon -- David's son and successor to his throne

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

these articles
הַכֵּלִ֔ים (hak·kê·lîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus

unweighed,
וַיַּנַּ֤ח (way·yan·naḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3240: Bestow, cast down, lay down, up, leave off, let alone remain, pacify, place,

because there were so
מְאֹ֣ד (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily

many.
מֵרֹ֖ב (mê·rōḇ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7230: Multitude, abundance, greatness

The weight
מִשְׁקַ֥ל (miš·qal)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 4948: Weight, weighing

of the bronze
הַנְּחֹֽשֶׁת׃ (han·nə·ḥō·šeṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base

could not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

be determined.
נֶחְקַ֖ר (neḥ·qar)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2713: To penetrate, to examine intimately


Additional Translations
Solomon left all these articles unweighed, because there were so many. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.

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

There was no reckoning of the brass of which he made all these works, from the very great abundance, there was no end of the weight of the brass.

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 exceeding many: the weight of the brass could not be found out.

And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were very numerous: neither was the weight of the brass ascertained.

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

And Solomon placeth the whole of the vessels; because of the very great abundance, the weight of the brass hath not been searched out.
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