2 Chronicles 4:18

2 Chronicles 4:18 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.
• New International Version (NIV)All these things that Solomon made amounted to so much that the weight of the bronze could not be calculated.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Solomon made all these things in great quantities, for the weight of the bronze was not sought.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And Solomon had all these articles made in such great abundance that the weight of the bronze was not determined.

Context of 2 Chronicles 4:18

16the pots, small tools and forks for meat. King Solomon asked Huram-Abi to make all these things for the Lord's temple. He used bright bronze to make all these things. 17The king told his workers to pour the hot bronze into shapes in the ground. They did that at a special place in the region of the Jordan Valley, between Succoth and Zarethan. Solomon did not weigh any of these things, because there were so many of them. No one ever knew the weight of the bronze. 19Solomon's workers also made all these things for God's temple: the gold altar; the tables which had the special bread on them; 20the pure gold lampstands with their lamps (the plans showed how the lamps had to burn at the entrance of the Most Holy Place);

2 Chronicles 4:18 word by word

וַיַּ֧עַשׂ שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה כָּל־הַכֵּלִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה לָרֹ֣ב מְאֹ֑ד כִּ֛י לֹ֥א נֶחְקַ֖ר מִשְׁקַ֥ל הַנְּחֹֽשֶׁת׃ פRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Thus Solomonשְׁלֹמֹהshelômôh · SolomonH8010
• madeעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213
• all these vesselsכְּלִיkelîy · article/utensilH3627
• in greatמְאֹדme'ôd · muchH3966
• abundanceרֹבrôb · abundanceH7230
• for the weightמִשְׁקָלmishqâl · weightH4948
• of the brassנְחֹ֫שֶׁתnechôsheth · bronzeH5178
• could not be found outחָקַרchâqar · to searchH2713

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 4:18

• 1 Kings 7:47Solomon did not weigh any of these things, because there were so many of them. No one ever knew the weight of the bronze.
• 1 Chronicles 22:3He supplied a lot of iron to make things for the temple. That was for nails and bars to fix the doors at the entrances. He also supplied more bronze than they could weigh.
• Jeremiah 52:20The bronze from the things that King Solomon had made for the Lord's temple was very heavy. They included the two bronze pillars, the large bath called ‘the Sea’, the 12 bronze bulls under the bath and the carts which carried the buckets for water. The bronze from all these things was more than they could weigh.

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 4:18

• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-18Compare 1 Kings 7:40b–47, which the Chronicler follows almost word for word.Read the comment

Topics related to 2 Chronicles 4:18

• Master Workman
• Mechanic
• Temple

In the dictionaries

• Solomon
• Sea
• Genealogy

Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings