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1 Kings 10:16
1 Kings 10:16 is verse 16 of 1 Kings chapter 10, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
600 shekels is approximately 15.1 pounds or 6.8 kilograms of gold.
King James Version
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
World English Bible
King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels is about 6 kilograms or 13.2 pounds or 192 Troy ounces.
Read in context
1 Kings 10:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
14 The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,
15 not including the revenue from the merchants, traders, and all the Arabian kings and governors of the land.
16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.
17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
18 Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Kings 14:26He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.
1 Kings 14:27Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.
1 Kings 14:28And whenever the king entered the house of the LORD, the guards would bear the shields, and later they would return them to the guardroom.
2 Chronicles 9:15King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of hammered gold went into each shield.
2 Chronicles 9:16He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three hundred shekels of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
2 Chronicles 12:9So King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles 12:10Then King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them to the care of the captains of the guard on duty at the entrance to the royal palace.