1 Kings 7:45-47

And the pots Or caldrons rather. These were vessels in which they boiled those sacrifices, or parts of sacrifices, which were divided between the priests and the people that offered them; that is, the peace-offerings, that they might eat them before the Lord. In the clay- ground Hebrew, In the thickness of the ground. That is, in earth that was stiff and glutinous, and therefore more fit for making moulds of all kinds. And in a plain country such moulds were more easily fixed than on the sides of hills, or steep places. Solomon left all the vessels unweighed Because the weighing of them would have been troublesome, and to no purpose. Neither was the weight of the brass found out Hebrew, נחקר, nechkar, investigated, or inquired into. Much less was an exact account taken of it.