2 Chronicles 9:15

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

2 Chronicles 9:15 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 10:15

(See Gill on 1 Kings 10:16).

2 Chronicles 9:15 In-Context

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

14 not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

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

16 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

17 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.