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1 Kings 10:17

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17 And he made 300 1shields of beaten gold; three minas[a] of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in 2the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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1 Kings 10:17 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 10:17

And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold
Which were a lesser sort:

three pounds of gold went to one shield;
or three hundred shekels, as in ( 2 Chronicles 9:16 ) a hundred shekels made one pound; so that these were but half the value of the former, and one of them was worth but two hundred and twenty five pounds: Eupolemus F15, an Heathen writer, makes mention of those golden shields Solomon made, and which were made for show, and not for war, as follows:

and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon;
one part of which was made an armoury of, see ( Song of Solomon 4:4 ) .

FOOTNOTES:

F15 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 34.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Kings 10:17 In-Context

15 besides that which came from the explorers and from the business of the merchants, and from all the kings of the west and from the governors of the land.
16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went into each shield.
17 And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
18 The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.
19 The throne had six steps, and at the back of the throne was a calf's head, and on each side of the seat were armrests and two lions standing beside the armrests,

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Footnotes 1

  • [a]. A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram
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