2 Chronicles 4:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance.1 Kings 7:47, And Solomon left all the vessels (unweighed) from very great abundance. Our text may be due to a copyist, whose eye wandered to the beginning of the next verse; but it is possible that the chronicler missed the significance of the verb used in Kings, and therefore substituted an easier term. The further changes — “unto great abundance,” “for the weight,” &c. — suggest this account of the matter.

Could not be found out.Was not ascertained.

2 Chronicles 4:18

18 Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.