1 Kings 10:16

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

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FOOTNOTES:

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

1 Kings 10:16 In-Context

14 The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

15 not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.

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; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

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

Footnotes

• [a] 600 shekels is approximately 15.1 pounds or 6.8 kilograms of gold.