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45 The dishes, small tools and bowls.

King Solomon asked Hiram to make all these things for the Lord's temple. Hiram used bright bronze to make all these things. 46 The 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. 47 Solomon did not weigh any of these things, because there were so many of them. No one ever knew the weight of the bronze.

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45 the pots, shovels and sprinkling bowls.(A)

All these objects that Huram(B) made for King Solomon for the temple of the Lord were of burnished bronze. 46 The king had them cast in clay molds in the plain(C) of the Jordan between Sukkoth(D) and Zarethan.(E) 47 Solomon left all these things unweighed,(F) because there were so many;(G) the weight of the bronze(H) was not determined.

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