16King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred bekas of gold went into each shield.


In Context

13 King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all she desired and asked for, besides what he had given her out of his royal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.

14 The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,

15 not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the land.

16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred bekas of gold went into each shield.

17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold, with three minas of gold in each shield. The king put them in the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon.

18 Then the king made a great throne inlaid with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.

1st Kings 10:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:16And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one target.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

10:16And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sides of gold for the plates of one shield.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

10:16And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred'shekels of gold went to one buckler.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:16And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold, he applied six hundred shekels of gold to one target;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

10:16And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:16And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

10:16King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

10:16And king Solomon maketh two hundred targets of alloyed gold — six hundred of gold go up on the one target;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

10:16And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.