1st Kings Chapter 10 verse 16 Holy Bible
And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred `shekels' of gold went to one buckler.
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And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.
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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold, -- he applied six hundred [shekels] of gold to one target;
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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
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King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.
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And king Solomon maketh two hundred targets of alloyed gold -- six hundred of gold go up on the one target;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - And king Solomon made two hundred targets [צִנָּה, from a root which signifies protect, a large oblong shield, which covered the entire person (Psalm 5:12), θυρεός, scutum. See 1 Samuel 17:7, 41. The LXX. here reads δόρατα, i.e., spears] of beaten gold [The authorities are divided as to the meaning of שָׁחוּט, here translated beaten. This rendering is supported by Bahr and Keil (after Kimchi), but Gesenius understands mixed gold. Rawlinson infers from the weight that the shields were only plated (shields were commonly made of wood, covered with leather). But whether they were solid or not does not decide the question whether the gold was pure or alloyed. "Shields of gold" are mentioned 2 Samuel 8:7; 1 Macc. 6:39]: six hundred shekels [Heb. omits shekels, as elsewhere, Genesis 24:22; Genesis 37:28; Judges 8:26, etc. There were apparently two kinds of shekel, the Mosaic and the royal (for the latter see 2 Samuel 14:26). The former was twice as much as the latter, but there is no agreement amongst commentators as to the weight or value of either. Nor can we be certain which is indicated here. Thenius decides for the former, and estimates the weight of the gold on each target to be 17 ½ lbs., and the value to be 6000 thalers (£900), or, according to Keil, 5000 thalers (£750). Keil, however, inclines to the belief that the royal shekel is meant, in which case the weight would be 9 lbs., and the value about £400. Bahr, however, estimates the gold at no more than £78 (523 thalers)] of gold went to one target.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16, 17) The shields overlaid with gold--the larger called "targets," and the lesser called "shields"--were evidently used for ornamenting the king's palace, and (as we may gather from the notice in 2Chronicles 12:11, of the brazen shields which superseded them) taken down and borne before the king on solemn occasions, as "when he went to the house of the Lord." We have notices of shields of gold among the Syrians of Zobah (2Samuel 8:7; 1Chronicles 18:7), and of shields hung on the walls of Tyre (Ezekiel 27:10-11). The use of such ornaments argues a plethora of gold, too great to be absorbed either in currency or in personal and architectural decorations.
