17 And he made 300 (A)shields of beaten gold; three minas[a] of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in (B)the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 10:17 A mina was about 1 1/4 pounds or 0.6 kilogram

He built (A)the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was a hundred cubits[a] and its breadth fifty cubits and its height thirty cubits, and it was built on four[b] rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  2. 1 Kings 7:2 Septuagint three

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