◄ 2 Chronicles 9:15 ►
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Good News Translation
Solomon made two hundred large shields, each of which was covered with about fifteen pounds of beaten gold,

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

Contemporary English Version
Solomon made 200 gold shields that weighed over three kilograms each.

New American Bible
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold (six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield)

Douay-Rheims Bible
And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:

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2 Chronicles 12:9,10 So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made, . . .

1 Kings 10:16,17 And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield. . . .

Context
Solomon's Wealth and Splendor
…14Beside the sum which the deputies of divers nations, and the merchants were accustomed to bring, and all the kings of Arabia, and the lords of the lands, who brought gold and silver to Solomon. 15And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:16And three hundred golden shields of three hundred pieces of gold, which went to the covering of every shield: and the king put them in the armoury, which was compassed with a wood.…
Cross References
1 Kings 10:16
And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.

1 Kings 14:26
And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the king's treasures, and carried all off: as also the shields of gold which Solomon had made:

2 Chronicles 9:14
Beside the sum which the deputies of divers nations, and the merchants were accustomed to bring, and all the kings of Arabia, and the lords of the lands, who brought gold and silver to Solomon.

2 Chronicles 9:16
And three hundred golden shields of three hundred pieces of gold, which went to the covering of every shield: and the king put them in the armoury, which was compassed with a wood.

2 Chronicles 12:9
So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made,

2 Chronicles 9:14
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