1 Kings 10:16

16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels^[a] of gold went into each shield.

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1 Kings 10:16 in Other Translations

KJV

16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

ESV

16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went into each shield.

NLT

16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than fifteen pounds.

MSG

16 King Solomon crafted two hundred body-length shields of hammered gold - seven and a half pounds of gold to each shield

CSB

16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold; 15 pounds of gold went into each shield.

1 Kings 10:16 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 10:16

And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold,
&c.] Which were a larger sort of shields, which covered the whole body; and these were made of gold beaten with the hammer, or drawn into plates, being melted like wax; so the Poeni or Carthaginians made shields of gold ^F13:

six hundred shekels of gold went to one target;
which is to be understood not of the weight, but of the price or value of them, which amounted to four hundred and fifty pounds of our money; so Brerewood ^F14.

FOOTNOTES:

F13 Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 35. 3.
F14 Ut supra. (De Ponder. & Pret. c. 5.)

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Kings 10:16 In-Context

14 The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,

15 not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories.

16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.

18 Then the king made a great throne covered with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.

Cross References 1

1. S 2 Samuel 8:7; 1 Kings 14:26-28

Footnotes 1

[a]. That is, about 15 pounds or about 6.9 kilograms; also in verse 29