Jeremiah 52:20

New American Bible - revised edition

the two pillars, the one sea and its base of twelve oxen cast in bronze, and the wheeled carts King Solomon had commissioned for the house of the Lord. The bronze from all these furnishings was impossible to weigh.

Cross References

1 Kings 7:25

This rested on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east, with their haunches all toward the center; upon them was set the sea.

1 Kings 7:47

Solomon did not weigh all the articles because they were so numerous; the weight of the bronze, therefore, was not determined.

2 Kings 25:16

The two columns, the one bronze sea, and the stands, which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord—the weight in bronze of all these articles was never calculated.

1 Chronicles 22:14

See, with great effort I have laid up for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron in such great quantities that they cannot be weighed. I have also laid up wood and stones, to which you must add.

2 Chronicles 4:18

Solomon made all these vessels, so many in number that the weight of the bronze could not be determined.

Jeremiah 52:17

The bronze pillars that belonged to the house of the Lord, and the wheeled carts and the bronze sea in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke into pieces; they carried away all the bronze to Babylon.