the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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पवित्र बाइबिल
1 राà¤à¤¾ 10:17
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
in the house: 1 Kings 7:2
Reciprocal: Exodus 25:36 - beaten 2 Samuel 8:7 - shields 1 Kings 10:21 - the house 1 Kings 14:26 - the shields of gold 1 Chronicles 18:7 - shields 2 Chronicles 9:15 - two 2 Chronicles 12:9 - the shields Isaiah 22:8 - the armour
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold,.... Which were a lesser sort:
three pounds of gold went to one shield; or three hundred shekels, as in 2 Chronicles 9:16 a hundred shekels made one pound; so that these were but half the value of the former, and one of them was worth but two hundred and twenty five pounds: Eupolemus o, an Heathen writer, makes mention of those golden shields Solomon made, and which were made for show, and not for war, as follows:
and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon; one part of which was made an armoury of, see Song of Solomon 4:4.
o Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 34.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
These shields, together with the 500 taken by David from Hadadezer 2 Samuel 8:7 were hung round the outer walls of a building, reckoned as belonging to the âhouse of the Forest of Lebanon,â but separate from it, and called sometimes âthe Tower of Davidâ Song of Solomon 4:4, or from its use âthe armouryâ Song of Solomon 4:4; Isaiah 22:8. The practice of hanging shields outside walls for ornamentation seems to have existed at Tyre Ezekiel 27:10-11, Rome, Athens, and elsewhere. Traces of it are thought to be found in the Assyrian sculptures.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Kings 10:17. He made three hundred shields — The ××× magen was a large shield by which the whole body was protected.
Mr. Reynolds computes that the two hundred targets, on each of which were employed three hundred shekels of gold, were worth £28,131 16s. 9 1/2d.
And the three hundred shields, in forming each of which three pounds of gold were employed, were worth £210,976 7s. 7d.
