1st Chronicles Chapter 22 verse 3 Holy Bible
And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;
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And he got together a great store of iron, for the nails for the doors and for the joins; and brass, more in weight than might be measured;
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And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joists, and brass in abundance without weight;
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And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
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And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight;
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David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;
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And iron in abundance for nails for leaves of the gates, and for couplings, hath David prepared, and brass in abundance -- there is no weighing.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Iron... the joinings; and brass. The very first Bible mention of metals (Genesis 4:22) places these two together. Whence Solomon got his "abundance" of the latter we have read in 1 Chronicles 18:8; for the "abundance' of the former he would not necessarily go further than his own land. Although the expression, "the land whose stones are iron" (Deuteronomy 8:9), is possibly enough a poetical figure where it stands, yet some of the force of the figure may have sprung from its nearness to fact. The abundant use of iron in a great variety of tools, implements, weapons, and the knowledge of it in bar and sheet, might be illustrated from a large number of quotations from Scripture (Deuteronomy 19:5; Deuteronomy 27:5; 2 Samuel 12:31; 2 Kings 6:5; Isaiah 10:34; Amos 1:3; and many others). The "joinings" were the clamps and plates of various size and shape, which held strongly together, whether beams of wood or blocks of stone.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) For the nails.--Mism?rim happens to occur only in the later books of the Old Testament, but may well be an ancient word. (Comp. the Assyrian asmare "spears," which derives from the same root.)For the doors of the gates.--he doors were to be what we call folding-doors (1Kings 6:34-35).For the joinings.--Literally, things that couple, or connect (feminine participle): i.e., iron clamps and hinges. In 2Chronicles 34:11 the same term is used of wooden clamps or braces.And brass.--Bronze, which was much used in the ornamental work of ancient buildings. Comp. the plates of bronze which once adorned the doors of the temple of Shalmaneser II. (B.C. 854), at Balawat, and are now in the British Museum. Sennacherib, in a later age (B.C. 700), describes the doors of his palace at Nineveh as "overlaid with shining bronze."Without weight.--A natural hyperbole. The actual amounts would, of course, be known to the royal treasurers. (Comp. the common use of the phrases la niba, la mani "without number," "without measure," in Assyrian accounts of spoils and captives.)
