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Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling

1 Koningen 10:16

En koning Salomo vervaardigde tweehonderd rondassen van geplet goud: zeshonderd sikkelen goud ging op ieder rondas;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gold;   King;   Shekel;   Shield;   Solomon;   Target;   Thompson Chain Reference - Solomon;   Targets;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Arms, Military;   Gold;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sabeans;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - King;   Solomon;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Israel;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Army;   Beaten Gold;   Buckler;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Arms;   Commerce;   Nail;   Phoenice;   Pieces of Gold;   Rehoboam;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Beaten Gold;   Palace;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Armour, Arms;   Government;   Israel;   King;   Mining and Metals;   Sheba, Queen of;   Solomon;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Target;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Armor;   Arms;   Hiram;   Tyre;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Arms, Armor;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Arms;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Armor;   Piece of Gold;   Solomon;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Shield;  

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En koning Salomo liet tweehonderd schilden maken van het beste goud: zeshonderd stukken goud nam hij voor elk schild;
Staten Vertaling
Ook maakte de koning Salomo tweehonderd rondassen van geslagen goud; zeshonderd sikkelen gouds liet hij opwegen tot elke rondas.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

two hundred: Mr. Reynolds computes that these 200 targets were worth 28,131 16s. 9d.; and that the 300 shields were worth 210,976 7s. 7d. 1 Kings 14:26-28, 2 Chronicles 9:15, 2 Chronicles 9:16, 2 Chronicles 12:9, 2 Chronicles 12:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 25:36 - beaten 1 Samuel 17:6 - target of brass 2 Samuel 8:7 - shields 1 Chronicles 18:7 - shields 2 Chronicles 1:14 - Solomon

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold,.... 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 m:

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 n.

m Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 35. 3. n Ut supra. (De Ponder. & Pret. c. 5.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The “targets” seem to have been long shields protecting the whole body, while the “shields” of the next verse were bucklers of a smaller size, probably round, and much lighter. They may be compared with the Assyrian long shield, and the ordinary Assyrian round shield. As the amount of gold used in each of the larger shields was only 600 shekels - worth from 650 to 700 of our money - and that used in the smaller ones was only half as much it is evident that the metal did not form the substance of the shields, but was laid as a coating or plating over them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 10:16. Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold — I have already conjectured that the צנה tsinnah might resemble the Highland targe or target, with a dagger projecting from the UMBO or centre.


 
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