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Solomon’s Wealth(A)

14 Solomon’s annual revenue was 666 talents[a] of gold, 15 not including revenue from traders, merchants, and from all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land. 16 King Solomon made 200 large shields of beaten gold, overlaying each large shield with the gold from 600 gold pieces,[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:14 I.e. about 49,950 pounds; a talent weighed about 75 pounds
  2. 1 Kings 10:16 MT does not identify the individual unit of measure