OLD TESTAMENT

2 Chronicles 9:15

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King Solomon made two hundred large shields of beaten gold. Six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one large shield.

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A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 600 shekels was about 6 kilograms or about 192 Troy ounces.

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