Zeredah] (1 Kings xi. 26); but in 1 Kings vii. 46 (Revised Version) Zarethan (compare Joshua iii. 6, Revised Version). Its site is not known, beyond the obvious inference that it was near the Jordan and not very far from Succoth. Joshua iii. 16 states that it was near Adam (the modern el Damieh).
¹⁸Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out[¹].
[¹] Or, was not searched out.
18. Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance] In 1 Kings vii. 47, And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were exceeding many.
19–V. 1 (= 1 Kings vii. 48–51).
The Vessels of Gold.
The Completion of the Work.
¹⁹And Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon was the shewbread;
19. the golden altar] This was the altar of incense (compare 1 Maccabees i. 21 ff.), which according to Exodus xxx. 1 ff. stood within the tabernacle and was made of acacia wood (compare however, Exodus xxxix. 38). Both passages in Exodus are of late, post-exilic, date, and as no mention of this altar is made by Ezekiel, it was probably a feature not of the first but of the second Temple.
the tables whereon was the shewbread] In 1 Kings vii. 48 (parallel passage), the table (singular); a reading probably to be accepted here also; compare note on verse 8.
²⁰and the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should burn according to the ordinance before the oracle, of pure gold;