3 Kings 7:47
And Solomon placed all the vessels: but for exceeding great multitude the brass could not be weighed.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et posuit Salomon omnia vasa : propter multitudinem autem nimiam non erat pondus æris.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיַּנַּ֤ח שְׁלֹמֹה֙ אֶת כָּל הַכֵּלִ֔ים מֵרֹ֖ב מְאֹ֣ד מְאֹ֑ד לֹ֥א נֶחְקַ֖ר מִשְׁקַ֥ל הַנְּחֹֽשֶׁת
Haydock's commentary
Weighed. It was deemed unnecessary, and too troublesome. (Haydock)
Hebrew, "And Solomon would not have all the vessels weighed," on account of the too great number: "the weight of the brass was not discovered." (Vatable)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.