1 Kings 10:16

16 ¹King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 * shekels of gold on each large shield.

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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 Now the weight of gold which came in to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,

15 besides that from the traders and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country.

16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield.

17 He made 300 shields of beaten gold, using three minas of gold on each shield, and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

18 Moreover, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with refined gold.

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1. 1 Kings 14:26-28; 2 Chronicles 12:9, 10

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[a]. Lit "he brought up"

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