He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,
And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas[3] of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits[1] and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four[2] rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
Your neck is like the tower of David, built in rows of stone;[1] on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.
Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.