¹⁶ King Solomon made 200 full body shields of beaten gold—600 shekels^[a] of gold on each shield—

¹⁷ and 300 small shields of beaten gold—three minas^[a] of gold on each shield. The king put them in the Forest House of Lebanon.

²¹ All of King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the Forest House of Lebanon were of pure gold. (None was of silver—that did not count for anything in the days of Solomon.)