A moment in scripture
1 Kings 10:16
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And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Kings 10:14
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
- 1 Kings 10:15
Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.
- 1 Kings 10:17
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- 1 Kings 10:18
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.