2 Chronicles 9:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And three hundred shields made he of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And he made 300 shields of beaten gold, with 300 shekels of gold spread on each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ and three hundred small shields of hammered gold, using seven and a half pounds of hammered gold in each shield. The king placed these in the Forest of Lebanon Palace.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ and also three hundred gold shields, from three hundred gold pieces, which covered each shield. And the king placed them in the armory, which was situated in a forest.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And three hundred golden shields of three hundred pieces of gold, which went to the covering of every shield. And the king put them in the armoury, which was compassed with a wood.

2 Chronicles 9:16 Cross References

1 Kings 14:26

and he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

1 Kings 7:2

For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

2 Chronicles 12:9

So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all away: he took away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

2 Chronicles 9:15

And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.

2 Chronicles 9:17

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.