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He made three hundred shields of beaten gold. Three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 16. Pieces. In 3 Kennicott. we read, three pounds.—Wood; or, “in the palace of the forest of Libanus,” (3 Kennicott. 10:17. Calmet.) as it is expressed in the Septuagint Tirinus.
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.32 Troy ounces, so 300 shekels was about 3 kilograms or about 96 Troy ounces.
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