Solomon’s splendour

14 The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents,[a] 15 not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the territories.

16 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; six hundred shekels[b] of gold went into each shield.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:14 That is, about 23 metric tons
  2. 1 Kings 10:16 That is, about 6.9 kilograms; also in verse 29