And three hundred shields made he of hammered gold: three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield. And the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Pieces. In 3 Kings, we read, three pounds.
Wood; or, "in the palace of the forest of Libanus "(3 Kings x. 17.; Calmet) as it is expressed in the Septuagint. (Tirinus)