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2 Chronicles 9:14-16
Evangelical Heritage Version
2 Chronicles 9:14-16
Evangelical Heritage Version
14 not counting what the traders and merchants were bringing. All the kings of Arabia and the governors of the land also kept bringing gold and silver to Solomon.
15 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold. Seven and a half pounds[a] of hammered gold went into each shield. 16 He made three hundred small shields of hammered gold. Almost four pounds[b] of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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- 2 Chronicles 9:15 The Hebrew reads six hundred ___ of gold. Six hundred bekas would be seven and a half pounds, but the Hebrew text supplies no unit of measure. If the unit of measurement is the shekel, the weight in pounds would double.
- 2 Chronicles 9:16 The Hebrew reads three hundred ____ of gold. The parallel in 1 Kings 10:17 reads three minas. A mina is sixty or perhaps fifty shekels. The ratio of bekas to minas supports the idea that the weight here is bekas.
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