8. Brass. Properly copper or bronze (see on 1 Kings 7:47). The metal was very common in ancient times throughout Western Asia.
This chapter, like its counterpart, 2 Sam. 8, seems concerned less with describing the conquests than with recounting the spoils and tribute that David won and put aside for the future temple (see on 11).
The brasen sea. See 1 Kings 7:15-26, 45; 2 Chron. 4:2-5, 10, 15, 18.
