John Gill Commentary 1 Kings 10:16

"And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler." — 1 Kings 10:16 (ASV)

And King Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold ,
&c.] Which were a larger sort of shields, which covered the whole body; and these were made of gold beaten with the hammer, or drawn into plates, being melted like wax; so the Poeni or Carthaginians made shields of gold ^F13 :

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six hundred shekels of gold went to one target ;
which is to be understood not of the weight, but of the price or value of them, which amounted to four hundred and fifty pounds of our money; so Brerewood ^F14 .

FOOTNOTES:

• F13: Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 35. 3.
• F14: Ut supra. (De Ponder. & Pret. c. 5.)