◄ 1 Kings 10:17 ►
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Good News Translation
He also made three hundred smaller shields, overlaying each one of them with nearly four pounds of gold. He had all these shields placed in the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon.

New Revised Standard Version
He made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield; and the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

Contemporary English Version
He also made 300 smaller gold shields, using almost two kilograms for each one, and he put the shields in his palace in Forest Hall.

New American Bible
and three hundred bucklers of beaten gold (three minas of gold went into each buckler); and the king put them in the house of the Forest of Lebanon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And 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.

in the house

1 Kings 7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Libanus; the length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had cut cedar trees into pillars.

Context
Solomon's Wealth and Splendor
…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.18King Solomon also made a great throne of ivory: and overlaid it with the finest gold.…
Cross References
1 Kings 7:2
He built also the house of the forest of Libanus; the length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had cut cedar trees into pillars.

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 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,

Isaiah 22:8
And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the forest.

1 Kings 10:16
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