2-Chronicles - 9:15



15 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred (shekels) of beaten gold went to one buckler.

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Explanation and meaning of 2-Chronicles 9:15.

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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.
And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred'shekels of beaten gold went to one buckler.
And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear:
And king Solomon maketh two hundred targets of alloyed gold, six hundred shekels of alloyed gold he causeth to go up on the one target;
And King Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.
And so, king Solomon made two hundred gold spears, from six hundred gold pieces, the amount used for each spear,

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Comparing 1-Kings 10:16-17, it follows from the two passages together that the "pound of gold" was equal to 100 shekels.

And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold - For a more correct valuation of these targets and shields than that in 1-Kings 10:17 (note), see at the end of the chapter.

And king Solomon made two hundred targets [of] beaten gold: (g) six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one target.
(g) Which amounts to 2400 crowns of the sun.
(h) Or pounds, called mina, of which every one seemed to make a hundred shekels.

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