³ David provided large amounts of iron for the nails that would be needed for the doors in the gates and for the clamps, and he gave more bronze than could be weighed.

¹⁴ “I have worked hard to provide materials for building the Temple of the Lord—nearly 4,000 tons of gold, 40,000 tons of silver,^[a] and so much iron and bronze that it cannot be weighed. I have also gathered timber and stone for the walls, though you may need to add more.

² Using every resource at my command, I have gathered as much as I could for building the Temple of my God. Now there is enough gold, silver, bronze, iron, and wood, as well as great quantities of onyx, other precious stones, costly jewels, and all kinds of fine stone and marble.

⁴⁷ Solomon did not weigh all these things because there were so many; the weight of the bronze could not be measured.

⁷ For the construction of the Temple of God, they gave about 188 tons of gold,^[a] 10,000 gold coins,^[b] 375 tons of silver,^[c] 675 tons of bronze,^[d] and 3,750 tons of iron.^[e]

²⁰ The weight of the bronze from the two pillars, the Sea with the twelve bronze oxen beneath it, and the water carts was too great to be measured. These things had been made for the Lord’s Temple in the days of King Solomon.

¹⁸ Solomon used such great quantities of bronze that its weight could not be determined.