Wealth, Splendor, and Wisdom

14 (A)Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was [a]666 talents of gold, 15 besides that from the traders, and the [b]wares of the merchants and all the kings of the (B)Arabs and the governors of the country. 16 (C)King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold, [c]using six hundred shekels of gold on each large shield.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:14 About 25 tons or 23 metric tons
  2. 1 Kings 10:15 Or traffic
  3. 1 Kings 10:16 Lit he brought up

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