that is, two pillars, one sea, and the foundaments, or bases, which king Solomon had made to the temple of the Lord; and there was no certain weight of [the] metal of all the vessels.
Lo! in my poverty I have made ready the costs of the house of the Lord; an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; soothly of brass and iron is no weight, for the number is overcome by greatness; I have made ready wood and stones at all costs.
The master of the chivalry took two pillars, and one washing vessel, and [the] twelve brazen calves, that were under the foundaments, which king Solomon had made in the house of the Lord. No weight was of the metal of all these vessels.