1 Kings 10:16

Bishop's Bible

And king Solomon made two hundred targettes of beaten golde: sixe hundred sicles of golde went to a target.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; fifteen pounds of gold went into each shield.

Hebrew Names Version
King Shlomo made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.

King James Version
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

English Standard Version
King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold; 600 shekels of gold went into each shield.

New Century Version
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold, each of which contained about seven and one-half pounds of gold.

New English Translation
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures of gold were used for each shield.

Amplified Bible
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten (hammered) gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

New American Standard Bible
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold, using six hundred shekels of gold on each large shield.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And King Salomon made two hundreth targets of beaten golde, sixe hundreth shekels of gold went to a target:

Legacy Standard Bible
And King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield.

Contemporary English Version
Solomon made two hundred gold shields and used about seven and a half pounds of gold for each one.

Complete Jewish Bible
King Shlomo made 200 large shields of hammered gold; fifteen pounds of gold went into one shield.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold. He used about 15 pounds of gold for each shield.

George Lamsa Translation
And King Solomon made two hundred shields of pure gold; six hundred minas of gold went into each shield;

Good News Translation
Solomon made two hundred large shields and had each one overlaid with almost fifteen pounds of gold.

Lexham English Bible
King Solomon made two hundred shields of hammered gold; six hundred measures of gold went up over each shield.

Literal Translation
And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And kynge Salomon caused to make two hundreth speares of beaten golde, sixe hundreth peces of golde put he to euery speare:

American Standard Version
And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.

Bible in Basic English
And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.

King James Version (1611)
And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten golde: sixe hundred shekels of golde went to one target.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Solomon made three hundred spears of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold were upon one spear.

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

Berean Standard Bible
King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And kyng Salomon made two hundrid scheeldis of pureste gold; he yaf sixe hundrid siclis of gold in to the platis of oo scheeld;

Young's Literal Translation
And king Solomon maketh two hundred targets of alloyed gold -- six hundred of gold go up on the one target;

Update Bible Version
And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New King James Version
And King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels of gold went into each shield.

New Living Translation
King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold, each weighing more than fifteen pounds.

New Life Bible
King Solomon made 200 large body coverings for battle of beaten gold. For each covering he used 600 pieces of gold.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And King Solomon made two hundred shields, of beaten gold, six hundred shekels of gold, laid he upon one shield;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Solomon made two hundred shields of the purest gold: he allowed six hundred sicles of gold for the plates of one shield.

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

THE MESSAGE
King Solomon crafted two hundred body-length shields of hammered gold—seven and a half pounds of gold to each shield—and three hundred smaller shields about half that size. He stored the shields in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, using 600 shekels of gold on each large shield.

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ The waight of golde that came to Solomon in one yere, was sixe hundred theescore and sixe talentes of golde, ¹⁵ Besydes that he had of marchauntes, and of the marchaundises of the spices, and of all the kinges of Arabia, & of the lordes of the countrey. ¹⁶ And king Solomon made two hundred targettes of beaten golde: sixe hundred sicles of golde went to a target. ¹⁷ And he made three hundred shieldes of beaten golde: three pounde of gold went to one shielde, and the king put them in the house of the wood of Libanon. ¹⁸ And the king made a great seate of iuorie, and couered it with the best golde. ¹⁹ And the seate had sixe steppes, and the toppe of the seate was rounde behinde, & there were pommelles on either syde on the place of the seate, and two lions stoode besyde the pommelles. ²⁰ And there stoode twelue lions on the steppes, sixe on a syde: There was none lyke worke seene in any kingdome. ²¹ And al king Solomons drinking vessels were of golde, and lykewyse all the vessels of the house of the wood of Libanon were of pure golde: And as for siluer, it was nothing worth in the dayes of Solomon: ²² For the kinges nauie of shippes went on the sea vnto Tharsis with the nauie of Hirams shippes: euen once in three yeres went the nauie to Tharsis, and brought golde and siluer, Elephantes teeth, apes, and pecockes. ²³ And so king Solomon exceeded al the kinges of the earth both in ryches and wysdome.

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

Cross-References

Judges 1:21
And the children of Beniamin did not cast out the Iebusites that inhabited Hierusalem: but the Iebusites dwell with the children of Beniamin in Hierusalem vnto this day.

2 Samuel 24:18
And Gad came the same day to Dauid, and said vnto him: Go vp and reare an aulter vnto the Lorde in the threshing floore of Areuna the Iebusite.

Zechariah 9:7
Their blood wyl I take away from their mouth, & their abhominatios from betweene their teeth: Thus they that shalbe left shalbe for our God, he shalbe as a prince in Iuda, and Accaron like as a Iebusite.

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.