1 Kings 10:16

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

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 And the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents of gold,

15 besides what [came] by the dealers, and by the traffic of the merchants, and by all the kings of Arabia, and by the governors of the country.

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

17 and three hundred shields of beaten gold, -- he applied three minas of gold to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

18 And the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with refined gold: