1 Kings 10:16

Christian Standard Bible ®

King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold; 15 pounds of gold went into each shield.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
And King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And king Solomon made two hundred targettes of beaten golde: sixe hundred sicles of golde went to a target.

Literal Translation
And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target;

Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold. He used about 15 pounds of gold for each shield.

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

World English Bible
King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.

King James Version (1611)
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten golde: sixe hundred shekels of golde went to one target.

King James Version
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And kynge Salomon caused to make two hundreth speares of beaten golde, sixe hundreth peces of golde put he to euery speare:

THE MESSAGE
King Solomon crafted two hundred body-length shields of hammered gold—seven and a half pounds of gold to each shield—and three hundred smaller shields about half that size. He stored the shields in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

American Standard Version
And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.

Bible in Basic English
And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.

Update Bible Version
And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.

Webster's Bible Translation
And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target.

New English Translation
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures of gold were used for each shield.

New King James Version
And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon made two hundred gold shields and used about seven and a half pounds of gold for each one.

Complete Jewish Bible
King Shlomo made 200 large shields of hammered gold; fifteen pounds of gold went into one shield.

Darby Translation
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold,—he applied six hundred [shekels] of gold to one target;

Geneva Bible (1587)
And King Salomon made two hundreth targets of beaten golde, sixe hundreth shekels of gold went to a target:

George Lamsa Translation
And King Solomon made two hundred shields of pure gold; six hundred minas of gold went into each shield;

Amplified Bible
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten (hammered) gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

Hebrew Names Version
King Shlomo made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

New Living Translation
King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than fifteen pounds.

New Life Bible
King Solomon made 200 large body coverings for battle of beaten gold. For each covering he used 600 pieces of gold.

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

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Solomon made three hundred spears of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold were upon one spear.

English Revised Version
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And King Solomon made two hundred shields, of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of gold, laid he upon one 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.

Lexham English Bible
King Solomon made two hundred shields of hammered gold; six hundred measures of gold went up over each shield.

English Standard Version
King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went into each shield.

New American Standard Bible
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold, using six hundred shekels of gold on each large shield.

New Century Version
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold, each of which contained about seven and one-half pounds of gold.

Good News Translation
Solomon made two hundred large shields and had each one overlaid with almost fifteen pounds of gold.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And kyng Salomon made two hundrid scheeldis of pureste gold; he yaf sixe hundrid siclis of gold in to the platis of oo scheeld;

Young's Literal Translation
And king Solomon maketh two hundred targets of alloyed gold -- six hundred of gold go up on the one target;

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ The weight of gold that came to Solomon annually was 25 tons, ¹⁵ besides what came from merchants, traders' merchandise, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land. ¹⁶ King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold; 15 pounds of gold went into each shield. ¹⁷ He made 300 small shields of hammered gold; about four pounds of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon. ¹⁸ The king also made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with fine gold. ¹⁹ The throne had six steps; there was a rounded top at the back of the throne, armrests on either side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests. ²⁰ Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps, one at each end. Nothing like it had ever been made in any other kingdom. ²¹ All of King Solomon's drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon's time, ²² for the king had ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram's fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. ²³ King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the world in riches and in wisdom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

two hundred: Mr. Reynolds computes that these 200 targets were worth 28,131 16s. 9d.; and that the 300 shields were worth 210,976 7s. 7d. 1 Kings 14:26-28, 2 Chronicles 9:15, 2 Chronicles 9:16, 2 Chronicles 12:9, 2 Chronicles 12:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:36 - beaten 1 Samuel 17:6 - target of brass 2 Samuel 8:7 - shields 1 Chronicles 18:7 - shields 2 Chronicles 1:14 - Solomon

Cross-References

Judges 1:21
At the same time the Benjaminites did not drive out the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites have lived among the Benjaminites in Jerusalem to this day.

2 Samuel 24:18
Gad came to David that day and said to him, "Go up and set up an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite."

Zechariah 9:7
I will remove the blood from their mouths and the detestable things from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah and Ekron like the Jebusites.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold,.... 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 m:

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 n.

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

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “targets” seem to have been long shields protecting the whole body, while the “shields” of the next verse were bucklers of a smaller size, probably round, and much lighter. They may be compared with the Assyrian long shield, and the ordinary Assyrian round shield. As the amount of gold used in each of the larger shields was only 600 shekels - worth from 650 to 700 of our money - and that used in the smaller ones was only half as much it is evident that the metal did not form the substance of the shields, but was laid as a coating or plating over them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 10:16. Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold — I have already conjectured that the צנה tsinnah might resemble the Highland targe or target, with a dagger projecting from the UMBO or centre.