1 Kings 10:16

16 King Solomon made two hundred shields of hammered gold; six hundred [measures of] gold went up over 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 the gold that came to Solomon in one year [was] six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,

15 apart from [that of] the men of the traders and the profits of the traders, and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the land.

16 King Solomon made two hundred shields of hammered gold; six hundred [measures of] gold went up over each shield.

17 Also [he made] three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went up over each of the small shields; and the king put them [into] the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

18 The king also made a large ivory throne, and he overlaid it [with] fine gold.