◄ 1 Kings 10:16 ►
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Good News Translation
Solomon made two hundred large shields and had each one overlaid with almost fifteen pounds of gold.

New Revised Standard Version
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each large shield.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon made 200 gold shields and used almost seven kilograms of gold for each one.

New American Bible
King Solomon made two hundred shields of beaten gold (six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield)

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.

two hundred.

200 targets were were worth

28,131l

16s

9d.; and that the

300 shields were worth

210,976l

7s

7d.

1 Kings 14:26-28 And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made: . . .

2 Chronicles 9:15,16 And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear: . . .

2 Chronicles 12:9,10 So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made, . . .

Context
Solomon's Wealth and Splendor
…15Besides that which the men brought him that were over the tributes, and the merchants, and they that sold by retail, and all the kings of Arabia, and the governors of the country. 16And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.17And three hundred targets of fine gold: three hundred pounds of gold covered one target: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Libanus.…
Cross References
1 Kings 14:26
And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made:

2 Chronicles 9:15
And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:

2 Chronicles 12:9
So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made,

2 Chronicles 12:10
Instead of which the king made brazen ones, and delivered them to the captains of the shieldbearers, who guarded the entrance of the palace.

1 Kings 10:15
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